Emergence, coordination

[From Rick Marken (920716.1600)]

Martin Taylor (920716 18:00) says:

We have a pure misunderstanding of words here. Easily fixed, I think.

Yes, indeed.

I assumed that the unit was a complete ECS, and the question was what emerged
from their hierarchic organization. I proposed coordination, which seems to
me to be a collective function different from collaboration. I don't know
how strongly I would support that proposal if pressed.

Thank you. Now I understand. I think coordination can, indeed, be an emergent
property of a hierarchy of Elementary Control Systems (ECSs) and if you don't
want to, I will (and have) strongly support that proposal if pressed (and so
will Tom Bourbon if he'd get his butt back on the net). In other words, I
vigorously agree with you -- maybe even more than you agree with you.

Best regards

Rick

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