Well, to what extent do computers copy natural processes? Often choices are binary, rather than a spectrum. As you say, a mix of analog and digital.

Lots of nature moves pretty fast. We seem to be in that middle ground, between too fast and too slow, where complexity and feedback can build.

Conflicts are friction. They are as natural as gravity. The problem is that as they become more complex, we have to correspondingly up our game, or fall back.

If everything was just hunky dory, we'd probably still be tadpoles swimming in puddles, because there would be no reason to leap out. Generally it is encountering problems and obstacles which causes us to refine our talents. The situation now is certainly a problem, from climate change to corruption. How do we up our game?

The reality is that the larger the group, the more basic the denominators driving it. When there are millions and billions of people all becoming networked, it isn't personal, political, cultural, so much as it's physics and biology.

Consider that as the executive and regulatory function of society, government is analogous to the central nervous system, while money and banking, as the value distribution system, is analogous to blood and the circulation system. If you have a situation where the head and the heart hoarded all the resources and told the rest of the body to go suck dirt, would it be healthy?

My point, basically, is that if we better understand the dynamics at work and incorporated them into our everyday perspective, some of our problems might be better understood.

Here is a recent essay, where I tried tying some of these points together;

https://johnbrodixmerrymanjr.medium.com/the-cliffs-edge-2b382ae2a73