Islands of Coherence: The Quiet Wisdom of Starlings
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Islands of Coherence: The Quiet Wisdom of Starlings
“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
This region of the dynamic spectrum, where outdated order dissolves into a creative and responsive chaos from which novel order can emerge, is often referred to as “the edge of chaos.” Stuart Kaufman suggested: “The best place for a system to be, in order to respond appropriately to a constantly changing world, is at the edge of chaos.” He explains
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