14 Of Self-Organization and Agency

“Know thyself” is an ancient Delphic maxim, a piece of timeless wisdom. It’s also the ultimate conundrum, your personal daily paradox. Self-awareness is a taproot of your existence. It plays a major role in all that you are and do, even if you don’t pay attention to it. Like everything else about yourself, self-awareness is a product of the complementary nature. To really know yourself is to know the complementary nature of yourself. This is an extraordinary insight: to know yourself, you need your squiggle sense! And that means your brain~mind must shift to its metastable mode. How you do that will always depend on many factors, not all of which can ever be specified. But reflecting upon the complementarity of self-organization and agency is a good place to start, as this squiggle is arguably the bullseye of the conundrum!