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To understand your world you first need to understand systems. You are a system and you live within other systems. Understanding our systems is akin to a fish comprehending the water in which it lives. It surrounds us; it is constant; it is the background in the face of daily events.   However, your systems are often changing and evolving, giving it dynamics.   That is only the beginning. Human systems evolve through all of at least nine essential features. a.       Rules – logics, quasi logic, intuitions, induction, limits, laws b.       Premises – beliefs, axioms, superstitions, absolutes c.       Leaders – interpreters, guides, directors, dictators d.       Dynamics – changes, cycles, chaos, repair e.       Taboos – impossibles, improbables f.        Hierarchies – ranks, orders, arrangements g.       Infinities – extremes, beyond extremes, imponderables h.       Conformities – rigidity, flexibility, freedoms i.        Human – behavioral, social, moral, ethi

The black soldier fly maggot is voracious and really active.   The issue at hand is how thousands of them eat, say a piece of fruit. An important fact about our friends is they only eat for about five minutes and then “relax.”   But if they are still near the food, they will block other maggots from eating.   So for all to feed, they (self) organize.   This is not to say they are intelligent, no more so than the average undergrad.   They organize into a vortex of flow where the hungrier maggots come from below toward the food supply pushing the relaxed maggots up (and over the top).   The result is a vortex-like flow, sort of like a fountain or volcano. View from Below This is an example of dynamics, created by self-organized behavior, that feeds all.   The maggots do this (a) without a plan, and (b) without a leader.   One of the problems in understanding self-organization is to find the driver.   In this case, it is hunge