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interests.

● As the context shifts under the actions of countless agents pursuing
their own concerns, active system agents must adapt to the
changes in terms of competence, behavior, structure, and the mix
of internal agents. To the extent that a system fails to adapt, it
loses contextual legitimacy and will fail.

● Diffusion slows as the natural ceiling of exogenous energy is
reached and the feedback loops turn negative as counteracting
(competitive) actions hold the energy flow in a stable state. This
persists until disrupted and an alternate variant on the now
established functionality emerges and captures the cycle of positive

feedback starving the old offering.

● This entire context dynamic with agent adaptation is rooted in
spontaneous self-interested (including altruistic) actions by
individuals self-organizing to act with others where necessary, to
drive non-linear, unpredictable emergence and diffusion through
stigmergic action.

So the Last Word. We are indeed, ‘one with the context’. We ignore it
at the risk of our own risk.

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