Structural Coupling of Regulatory Elements and Reality Challenges

Abstract

Different realities are possible and thus also different decisions. They are based on predispositions faced with different challenges that people (do not) acknowledge. The research objective is to point at differences when the reality is based on the opinions of experts, public delivery deliberation, a small group of experts or committees, an individual who decides based on diverse inputs, a small group of experts that does the same, or on collective wisdom. This paper presents a way of independent managing of various perspectives that nevertheless can exhibit their symbiosis in collective opinions as one form of (collective) reality, here named as a “visa” approach of decision making. This paper, based on presented differences, systemic regulatory elements, and their challenges, presents them as synergies (structural coupling) in the form of collective decision making. Independent and individual participation based on collective intelligence can diminish the pressure of interest groups, lobbying, or other informal influences, and can better align various interests.