30 Of Modeler and Model

The complementary nature and your squiggle sense are both grounded in the science of coordination dynamics (CD). This means that a significant, nontrivial connection between them has been established not only as a result of ideas, metaphors, opinions and speculation, but due to hypothesis-tested, theory-driven scientific experimentation, vetted and published in hundreds of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Such a vast knowledge base can be daunting for anyone to try to grasp. To explore and comprehend it seriously, you need a way to compress all this knowledge and help you navigate it. One way of doing that in modern scientific and technological areas of research is called modeling. Scientific models often provide ‘big picture’ perspectives that can be used to explain, predict, plan and test new hypotheses. In CD, the mathematical model comes in the form of a set of nonlinearly coupled, nonlinear limit cycle oscillators called the “Extended Haken-Kelso-Bunz (HKB) Model” which, because it was tested so thoroughly, came to be called a “Coordination Law”.