Adaptive Emergent Forms and Processes

All around us we can see parts self-assemble into dynamically alive, adaptive emergent forms and processes. Not only can we see it, but we are part of it, even though our day-to-day habits, our focus on things beyond our bodies, may give us the sense of being observers of objects, separate from what we observe. In fact, we are not walking through the world; we are interwoven with it.

Neil Theise, Notes on Complexity