Intelligence Augmentation (IA) in Complex Decision Making: A New View of the vSa Concept of Relevance

To understand the vSa, it is important to remind that it is an approach based on metaphors and analogies that are useful for understanding business phenomena. So to better understand the concepts of relevance and consonance, in systems terms, we refer to some analogies with Newtonian science in which relevance is the equivalent of mass. We know that mass in physics is distinguished in gravitational mass and inertial mass. Physical mass is the obstacle to change just as relevance is the obstacle to change: when we have relevant suprasystems, it is as if we had constraints on action just as inertial mass is a constraint in physics. But while in Newtonian physisc the mass is uniquely determined and therefore cannot vary, in Einstain’s relativistic physics the mass can vary and varies due to the speed that, in viable systems, is the equivalent of consonance. By analogy, the more the consonance grows the more the relevance changes even if it is influent. This means that if the suprasystem is influent and has become super consonant, that is, an excess of consonance occurs, then the suprasystem becomes pathological and therefore becomes influent from critical. In management, this explains why a successful entrepreneur at one time may not be successful in another.