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bmrohrs. Tlus is howweinalresense oi the hshspeeles
iii streams, and the bird species in a tree. Each has its
place in a set or order or branches, on the bark or
slems,or the leatlaounae oi lhetree
Thu order, or sizlrhmdion change, produces
physlsal, mm, and organic sens. Not unly species
change with order, but so does behaviour We cannot
get n riot oi one person, and iewer than I5 rarely clap
to applaud as an audience, when we cheretore come to
construct hlerarchles, the rules ot order should guide
in
An array ot orders ls observed in a wide range oi
phenomena such as human settleli tire, numbers in
social hierarchies, trophic levels trood pyraoiidsl, and
the sire oi animals in allied woluglral lamil es The
size ot the rnctor itselt ttrmes 3 tor river branches)
changes with the dimensions oi the system ttlrnes is
int oophre pyramidst. Physlnl entitles horn protons to
uniyerses display such order, with a consequent
increase in the ratio, dirnensions, and behaviours
associated with size change tginnl mid dwart stars
behave very dtlterentlyl
As designers. we need to study and apply branching
potterns to roads or trails, and lo beaware of the stable
orders 0! such things ns human settlements, or we may
be m conilrct both with orderly llow tern we increase
the stre ot a highway and not alter all m-ds), with
settlement Slze tvillages are eonseryanve at about the
low-people order, and unstnble much below or above
tlul numberi, with sequences lit drrn spillways, and
(tin: with the numbers 0! people admitted to
tunctionrl hierarchies where intorrnalion rs passed in
both directions We can b appropriate or
inappropriate systems by choosing parncular orders.
but we do better to snrdy and apply appropriate and
sublesize and lastorclesses torspeeih constructs For
example, in designing a Village, we should study the
orders oi soe oi settlements, and choose one ol ttese
This nae-ides the number and types oi servlees and the
occupations rueded, which in turn decides the space
and types of shops and etriees tor a tillage ol thnl sine,
and the access network needed.
in human systems, we have contused the order oi
hierarshtcal hrncoon with rtahrs and power, as though
a treestem were less important than the Iuvn in total.
We have made 'htghc'r" mean desirabts, as though the
finflns were less to be desired than the palm ot the
hand What we should recognise is that each part
needs the other, and that none runcrtons without the
others. when we remove a dominant animal horn a
bah-viomal hierarchy, another is created (mm lower
orders When we remavz subordinates, others are
created horn within the dominants. 5o H is with
soeains.
Ihus, we cln see how rivers change their whole
regime ti we alter one aspect We should also see that
water is o/the whole. not to be thought 0! in terms oi its
psrts Thus we reiute the concept oi strho and ateert
thatoi [unwell it is not what ynu are, it is what you do
in relation to the socrety you choose to litre or. We need
each other, and it is a reclprtxal need wherever we
have a tuncoon tn relanon to each other
LIE
CLASSIFICATION OF EVENTS
All events are susceptible to classirieation over .
vanety oi characterisocs, and as, lot example, clouds
and galaxies have their pattern-names, so do "why
other phenomena Some basic ways to classrty events
in a lullhed system are
A NATURE.
Al Explosive disintegration, erosion, impact,
ix“ gm“: integrabon, constructron, translanon
A} 92mm. tdea,ereatioe thought, insight
3 STAGE.
Bl, mm 0n|y tungerrnrnoted seed. unexplored
idea, unexploded bornbl
81 Wothotuhon
b3 Completed tgrowtb and expansion ceasedl,
rrtieulaled
tat Mus tdirintegratioe. replaced or treated by
new events) doartioilated
c DIMENSION.
CI gunmen phenomena), curves
:1 M tsurlace phenomenal, tessellae, dendrites
(3 Three tsohd phenomena), trees
c4 5w trnotring solid phenomenal, includes the
lunedirnenston
c- More tconreplual phenomenal models oi
particles or lorces, states oi energy
D LOCAHON
m. Generating across equrepolential surlaces
trtortru at real
in Withihmedia tweather "humal" systems).
in msuflam at amorso (trees)
D. mm (mm: explosions and organrsrnst,
D5 m loested out or normol drniensrons ot
spaesLnrne
By extending nnd applying these categories, all
events can be given short annotations, ee.
'Asiphng :AZ,BZ,C3,D3
. A tailing bomb rs AI, BLCA, uz.
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TIME AND RELATIVITY IN THE
MODEL
As we see the seed as the origrn ot the nee, so we urn
broaden our view, and our dimensions. and VRW the
tree I! the surrent time-locus o1 its own genealogy
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