provides the scientific underpinnings of The Complementary Nature and The Squiggle Sense. Defined broadly as the science of coordination, coordination dynamics describes, explains and predicts how patterns of coordination form, adapt, persist and change in living things. In coordination dynamics the parts communicate via mutual information exchange and information is meaningful and specific to the forms coordination takes.
Coordination dynamics embraces both spontaneous self-organizing tendencies and the need to guide or direct them in specific ways in a single conceptual framework. Life, brain, mind and behavior are hypothesized to be linked by virtue of sharing common dynamical principles.
A key feature of coordination dynamics is called metastability which arises because of symmetry breaking. Metastability is the simultaneous realization of two competing tendencies: the tendency of the parts to couple together and the tendency of the parts to express their intrinsic independent behavior. Metastability has been hailed as a new principle of organization in complex living systems, including the brain, reconciling apparent contraries such as individual and collective, part and whole, competition and cooperation, integration and segregation, and so forth. Thus, metastability is the scientific core of TCN and TSS.
People who embrace TCN and TSS may appropriately be called metastabilians.
