31 Of Coordination Variable and Control Parameter

As you now begin to play the “Squiggle Game” to help you learn the Coordination Law via the complementary nature of its squiggles, appreciate that its model equation wasn’t always around, nor easy to produce. The ability to successfully capture real coordination behavior was hard won, an arduous reconciliation of theory and experiments, trial and error, observation and analysis of actual coordinating systems, like human beings coordinating movements. Happily, after all that work, it turns out that both the model and its squiggle sense stand quite independently of implementation details of actual systems, levels and contexts whose behavior the model captures. Indeed, the dynamics of relative phase, at the root of coordination, proves to be universal, transcending specific qualities and behavior of elements, components and processes from which it emerges.