CP OF CD
ca1~ca2
time~space
one~many
body~mind
polarization~reconciliation
attractor~repeller
cooperation~competition
physical~mental
dwelling~escaping
states~tendencies
individual~collective
particle~wave
local~global
inphase~antiphase
perception~action
multistability~metastability
activity~rest
left~right
clockwise~anticlockwise
being~becoming
reaction~anticipation
dichotomy~complementarity
emergentism~reductionism
fluctuations~states
functional information~self-organization
gradual~abrupt
homogeneous~heterogeneous
horizontal~vertical
individual~collective
information~intrinsic dynamics
intention~dynamics
integration~segregation
learning~memory
linear~nonlinear
linearity~nonlinearity
local~global
macro~micro
metastability~info creation
multifunctionality~multistability
multistability~metastability
organism~environment
part~whole
perception~action
persistence~change
planning~execution
preferences~exploration
qualitative~quantitative
reaction~anticipation
recruitment~annihilation
reduction~construction
simple~complex
source~sink
space~time
stabilization~destabilization
stability~instability
stable~unstable
states~tendencies
structure~function
symbolic~dynamic
symmetry~dynamics
symmetry~broken symmetry
togetherness~apartness
within~between
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"The Complementary Nature is a genuinely fascinating, provocative, and unique book. It rises to the challenge of describing how either/or thinking obscures the in-between dynamic realities that constitute life itself and in turn how these realities rest on complementary rather than oppositional pairs.
In the process, it breaks new ground and opens fresh terrain for future research by illuminating ways in which the science of coordination dynamics—from the study of brains to the study of behavior—offers new paths for understanding the nature of human nature."
—Dr. Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, author of The Primacy of Movement
"To date, Bohr's generalized complementarity principle has been no more than an epistemological stance with little to say to the scientist expressing a normal interest in predicting natural phenomena. In their book, Kelso and Engstrøm show how the principle can advance scientific prediction and, in turn, how science—especially the science of coordination—can develop the principle. Scientists and philosophers alike will find much to ponder and debate in the pages of this book, a book that I'm sure Niels Bohr would have found deeply satisfying."
—M. T. Turvey, Trustees' Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut, and Senior Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
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