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We are confronted with problems in virtually all of our major systems. Einstein said that “we cannot solve our problems on the same level of thinking we were on when we created them.” We believe a fundamental fault underlying all these problems is the way we look at them. Our traditional method has been to analyze the system as if it were a machine to find the faulty elements and to fix them. We have done this with ailing ecosystems long enough to know that it doesn’t work well. If it doesn’t work here because of the complexity of the system how can we expect it to work on us or other equally, if not more, complex living systems? We are not machines. We can adapt and create in novel ways.
In The Boids and the Bees we, and other living systems, are seen as the complex and adaptive systems that we are, which leads to a perceptual revolution:
How we adapt today will determine our tomorrows; and they can be optimized.
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