[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 the following...

[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”  in order to...

[This is Part 12 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 11 here .] d. Calories Calories - in general A calorie is a unit of heat energy, interchangeable with all other forms of physical energy.  H.T. Odum & Elisabeth Odum: “Since all kinds of energy can be converted into heat, we can measure the energy flowing into and out of a system in units of heat energy such as the Calorie… All processes require energy in some form—light, motion,...