FIFTEENHOW DO WE RENEW COHERENCE WISELY?
The act of sense making is discovering new terrain as you are making it.
—Brian Arthur, economist, Santa Fe Institute
Remember Humpty Dumpty’s fall? The pieces didn’t fit together again. Emergence is like that. What arises from creative interactions is not a return to former times. It is more of a spiral, a re-newal— new again. Some elements circle around from the past. Others are original. Together, they form something novel and of a higher-order complexity.
This chapter explores coherence, the last aspect of change’s pattern of disturbing, differentiating, and coalescing. It opens with a story of differences ...
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