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Design themes are like threads running through the social fabric; they are less a commanding force th an som ething we command, weaving these strands into m any different patterns of meaning.

Overall, the presence of mathematics (patterns) in culture can be thought of in terms of a spectrum from unintentional to self-conscious.

Nature is filled with autonomous agents with well-defined missions to exist, and serve the greater eco system as an essential piece in the ‘machine’, us humans included.

They/we are completely autonomous, including every molecule that composes of us, in a completely decentralized way. Therefore nature itself is a ‘decentralized, autonomous organization’.