Natural systems operate on multiple scales: the swarm rule

In Daniel Golman's essay (see link at right) he talks about swarm intelligence - think ants and how their system operates. "no single ant grasps the big picture or leads the other ants (the queen just lays eggs); instead each ant follows simple rules of thumb that work together in countless ways to achieve self-organizing goals"

The swarm rules might boil down to:
"Know your impacts.
Favor improvements.
Share what you learn."

I am thinking about "a sense of wonder" and if this new piece has the theme of invigorating a sense of wonder - in us who make it, who share it and those who share what their experience of it was. Thinking of that process as a system - thinking about David Lynn's ideas on systems.

There is also something about the visible and the invisible. We can't see molecules, we can see the ant colony. We can't see an idea, we can see its manifestation (sometimes). We can follow the evolution of an idea and follow the systems created by an idea. (From atom to atom bomb)