43 Of Integration and Segregation

The complementary nature of integration and segregation plays an inherent, vital role in the synergic organization of living systems discovered, explored and modeled by Coordination Dynamics (CD). Synergies simultaneously reconcile their overall collective functions with the individual integrity of the coordinative elements (components, parts, members, processes, signals, thoughts…) that compose and form them. Dynamic, inextricable tendencies for individual coordinating elements to couple or bind together (integration), and for those same elements to retain and express their independence (segregation), coexist and function simultaneously. Such complementary integrative and segregative tendencies are exactly what is found in the metastable mode of CD. Like multistability and phase transitions, metastability is universal, relevant at all levels, including the very relevant level of your brain~mind.