21 Of Boundary and Domain

In the complementary nature, levels are relative to each other. No single level has priority. This perspective is reified in Coordination Dynamics (CD), where it inspires the ongoing search for level-independent mechanisms and principles. The theory, model and experiments of Coordination Dynamics indicate that levels are synergetic individual~collectives. They are dynamic, inextricably linked, complementary and relative: What is micro at one level is macro at another. What is local at one level is global at another. But levels of what? What is a level? From the perspective of your squiggle sense grounded in Coordination Dynamics, there isn’t one fundamental level of reality. A level is a dynamic, individual~collective boundary~domain, a dissipative, self-organized, nested container.