All nature is organized as logically delineated structures 'seeking' equilibrium states where inputs occur with comprehensible minimized effort and outputs have a home in a larger structure itself 'seeking' an equilibrium state. That is why logical structures and their equilibrium states define the knowable universe. It is both that simple and that complex, the signature of legitimate analysis.
What is an equilibrium state?
In structure A where outputs = inputs - maintenance, an equilibrium state exists where ∆maintenance = (+/-)0.
Logical structures 'seek' a stable low such ∆ in consequence of 'naturally' pursuing operational efficiency. A well adapted structure can achieve a consistent low ∆ as a moving average across the spectrum of familiar environmental changes. Such a logically delineated structure is well adapted, stable, and efficient. It is important to keep in mind that a stable low maintenance ∆ is the mark of an efficient logically delineated structure, but not a robust one. Robustness tends to be at the expense of efficiency.
Such structures are said to 'seek' a stable low maintenance ∆ as a selective advantage in their evolution, the more efficient the structural process the more productive the structural process the more successful the structural process in survival and replication.
What are the mechanics of accomplishing this seeking of equilibrium? Structures suffering a deficiency in equilibrium, a significantly increasing maintenance ∆, overreact. Disequilibrium states drive significant degrees of overcompensation until there is a catastrophic reaction to that overcompensation, the sort of discontinuous function well described and made continuous by Catastrophe Theory. Disequilibrium states are not orderly processes but possess aspects of chaos. They are, in a word, 'panic' states of existential consequence.
Once overreaction achieves an effect, however catastrophic, an iterative game of diminishing compensation establishes equilibrium, maintenance ∆ is stabilized, and 'panic' recedes or else the system ceases to exist.
Equilibrium is the greater good, the nirvana of such structures' operations, the summa of all known existence. It is important in these innovative times to keep in mind that the end of disruption that serves human social existence is a new more successful logically delineated structure, technical, economic, and social, in equilibrium, not more mindless disruption.
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