Sublime

In the century and a half since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, we still are stymied by the complexity of the biosphere, and, just as with our financial systems, our efforts to intervene have often led to confounding results.

studying the motivations of individuals in isolation: the patterns we see are a fundamentally social affair. More, as Anderson

All the examples are variations on the same mathematical theme: self-organization, the spontaneous emergence of order out of chaos.

We are less likely to be surprised if we can see how events accumulate into dynamic patterns of behavior.

new activities to grow via recombination, transfer, repurposing, and other processes,

read about them in Systems Archetypes: Diagnosing Systemic Issues and Designing High-Leverage Interventions by Daniel H. Kim (1993, Cambridge, Mass.: Pegasus Communications). Or see The Fifth Discipline, pp. 378-90; issues of The Systems Thinker;

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The collective activity on a bundle of fibers is what is meant by pattern.