I do not understand it as an explanation for how hundreds of people get coordinated into working institutions.
Something on my mind as I read this post is “evolution somehow creates pretty complicated things, with relatively low amounts of agency.”
There are clear limits on what evolution can build, especially in a given timeframe. I don’t have a clear model of how this relates back to your question, but “what sort of processes and feedback loops are involved when evolution invented multicellular organisms, etc” might be a useful pointer here.
Something on my mind as I read this post is “evolution somehow creates pretty complicated things, with relatively low amounts of agency.”
There are clear limits on what evolution can build, especially in a given timeframe. I don’t have a clear model of how this relates back to your question, but “what sort of processes and feedback loops are involved when evolution invented multicellular organisms, etc” might be a useful pointer here.