Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning · Journal of Design and Science

Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization.

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