The complexity that was generated in Shilnath

The primary way in which complexity of structure reveals itself, is in the internal density of significant relationships which exist. When adaptation occurs successfully, and each line or element created is created in such a way as to avoid its possible mistakes, it does this by creating meaningful relationships in every direction.

This is where tight and loose coupling in software components come into play, somehow…

One small house thus enters into at least seven meaningful relationships, overlapping and connected. Each of these relationships is embodied as a center, and these seven centers are strong and living ones.
Further, the relationships are motivated by practical daily-life concerns, which come from people’s most ordinary strivings and needs and wishes. They are not esoteric artistic efforts to create nice space, as a western artist might attempt: Rather they are very mundane, sensible, and practical expressions of real thoughts, feelings, emotions, actions, games, commerce, and neighborly behavior. They are above all down to earth.

The subtlety of these relationships, and the connective tissue which they form, is a large part of the life in any living structure. Each of these relationships takes the form of a living center.
Since the one example I have been discussing alone creates some seven vitally important living centers, as a result of the extreme carefulness of placing and position, size, and shape, we may surmise that the community as a whole probably contains some 7 x 150 or about a thousand overlapping living centers. This is the true complexity typical of any living structure, and as in this instance, such complexity can only be created when the structure is a generated one.

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