Islands of Coherence: The Quiet Wisdom of Starlings

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“When a system is far from equilibrium small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order.”
- Chemist and Nobel Laureate, Illya Prigogine
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In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems
by Giorgio Parisi
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higher order beings coordinate our actions using signals like curiosity, discernment & synchronicity
by Richard D. Bartlett
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This same constellation has already been described and defined in a number of different ways including as The Sensemaking Web, The Intellectual Deep Web and The Meta Tribe.
from The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets by Joe Lightfoot
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In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems