Patterns
We see order and structure everywhere in nature, but it is more emergent than deterministic. That is why central planned economies failed and why many top-down hierarchical companies fail. Newton’s image of a clockwork universe has been replaced by Watson and Crick’s DNA universe and Turing’s computer universe, but these are no less mechanistic. Yet complexity theory – based on advanced non-linear mathematics that can simulate living systems – shows that the patterns of life are not rigidly determined, nor hierarchically controlled. Rather, simple rules applied to complex, apparently chaotic systems allow order to emerge. The interactions themselves co-create the patterns.
— Wayne Visser
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