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Synergy, synergetics.The behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately.
'The whole is greater than the parts'.
"Synergy means behavior of integral, aggregate, whole systems unpredicted by behaviors of any of their components or subassemblies of their components taken separately from the whole". --R.Buckminster Fuller.
"When sub-systems coalesce to form a larger system the totality may accrue a bonus benefit resultant from the coalescence". --Stuart Holroyd (in The Arkana Dictionary of New Perspectives , 1989).
"The difference between a mass of body cells and an individual living entity. The difference between molecules of silicon and an integrated circuit". --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).
The ultimate textbook on synergy is R.Buckminster Fuller's magnum opus Synergetics -- Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking .
Websites
(Anachron Library entry... list of links to other Buckminster Fuller pages on the net)
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