Islands of Coherence: The Quiet Wisdom of Starlings
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Islands of Coherence: The Quiet Wisdom of Starlings
a “Tragedy of the Commons” issue, the system is sending you a signal that you cannot solve the problem or your own, in isolation from your fellow competitors, users, or consumers. Typically this signal comes in the form of increased difficulty in getting your share of the common resource. Sometimes you can recognize it by your feeling of powerlessn
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Interconnectedness is one of the basic principles of life. Transience is another. They both go together to form a multileveled dynamic web of connections between living processes. What results is an emergent and persistent higher-level order from constantly changing lower-level interactions. The singers change, but the song remains the same.
Understanding Living Systems
It didn’t feel like a formation, it felt like interdependent murmuration towards a shared intention—they
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“for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures.”4