A Symphony of Dynamic Complexity

Each observer is embedded in an environment populated by countless dynamic complex systems. In the case of the energies impinging on any one observer — the Energy‑scape — the observer becomes a constellation of sampling surfaces, the primary nervous systems through which the world is touched. As these surfaces fold inward, their signals are taken up by internal complex systems that, together, generate a fluid model of the world: an Umwelt.

The energetic field in which the observer is immersed is dynamic, multitudinous, and continuous. Its components interact even as we sample them. The wind shifts while we feel its coolness; sunlight heats it in the same moment; the proportion of water vapor changes as we breathe it in. The Energy‑scape is never still, and neither are we.

Whenever an observer engages with an external complex system, a larger and more eloquent system emerges — one shaped by the mixing of what is inside with what is outside. The observer arrives already carrying its own ongoing dynamics. When these internal systems meet the external ones, the complexity does not merely increase; new forms of complexity arise, new structures, new modes of organization.

A resonant symphony of complex systems moves through and around each other — convolving, dancing, altering one another in real time.

What does this mean for me?

I am already living my life inside a symphony of dynamic complexity. I am not striving to become a small infinity; I was born into a world of them, and I was born as one of them. My life, moment to moment, is best understood as a kind of personal mixology of dynamic complex systems, with me at the unfolding vortex of the mix.

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