49 Of Accommodation and Assimilation

At the psychological level, accommodation means a flexible tolerance of your brain~mind for novel dynamic coordination patterns. Assimilation means merging and reconciling novel input within a preexisting synergetic milieu, the evolving dynamical landscape or intrinsic dynamics. In Coordination Dynamics (CD), the squiggle dance of accommodation and assimilation is understood as the acquisition and stabilization of functional information. Your multistable modes and phase transitions between them are well-suited to assimilation and the pattern stabilization necessary for you to adapt, develop, learn and evolve. At the same time stability, or cohesion of pre-established synergies, naturally resists new accommodations, protecting you from informational overload.