emergence of soldier lichen

Collaboration is the core of this project. Collaboration is more than simply the clear fact of needing to work together — but rather it begins from a deeper logic of the realization that the world is composed only of entangled systems and that there is no such thing as a distinct singular entity. Collaboration, in one form or another, is the basic state of reality. To participate in change is to participate in the shifting and modulating of systems (please see the “conceptual tools section for more on this).

New collaborations — new systems — are not simply hybrids with a few of the features of each of the entities that have unified. New systems behave like distinct entities with new EMERGENT properties and behaviors. It is in this manner that this class is set up as a collaboration to foster new effective  emergences as an end goal.

The key collaborators in ths class are: students, spurse, and NAMA. Each has a page in this section with more information.

(Key Words: Emergence, Symbiosis, Symbiogenesis)