[This is Part 15 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 14 here .]  d. Fractality Fractality - in general They say the “B.” in “Benoit B. Mandelbrot” stands for “Benoit B. Mandelbrot”. As the “Father of Fractals”, his name itself hints at one of their key features: self-similarity. In “The Fractal Geometry of Nature”  he identifies naturally occurring fractal patterns in plants, coastlines, galaxies, human bodies (as in the br

[This is Part 14 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 13 here .] b. Synergy & emergence Synergy & emergence - in general Both synergy and emergence are properties of a whole system that are different from those of the parts or elements or subsystems. Let’s briefly explore the difference between them, their impact on the science of complexity, and their place within the metarevolutionary worldview. In this book we will use th

[This is Part 13 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 12 here .] We can now turn to discussing how all of the preceding units interact, what those patterns of interactions imply about our metacrisis, and how we may use these features/behaviors to our advantage as metarevolutionaries. Stated otherwise, we have just taken the viewpoint of the “extremely simple”. We were, as Leibniz said, seeking the “elements of the elements”