Synergetics
Studying the shapes and patterns of nature is inherently fulfilling, but also deeply insightful. The polymath Buckminster Fuller, best known for his geodesic dome design, called this ‘synergetics’. Fuller, who was expelled from Harvard twice, looked for recurring mathematical relationships in nature and applied them to fields as diverse as geometry, thermodynamics, chemistry, psychology, architecture, economics, philosophy and theology. The broad sweep of synergetics prefigured much of what is today the science of living systems, especially the phenomenon of emergence, where the behaviour of the total system cannot be predicted by the behaviour of its individual parts.
— Wayne Visser
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