39 Of Dynamical Landscape and Coordination Modes

The behavior of a living, synergetic system like you consists of a set of trajectories on a manifold that's diverse, contextual, and idiosyncratic—an evolving flow of different possible coordination patterns, all of which follow the Coordination Law. Behavior is nonlinear and changes from one pattern to another. It can go backwards, forwards and sideways, round and round, up and down… It’s not just coordination patterns that emerge, persist and change in real time, but also the possible transitions between them. In Coordination Dynamics (CD), all possible coordination patterns that you can express, quantitative changes within them and qualitative transitions between them, can be imagined and visualized as a dynamical landscape whose shape depends on a variety of different factors or (in scientific lingo) control parameters. The squiggle sense of your dynamical landscape is revealed via visualizations and computer simulations of the Coordination Law.