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While, in some cases, traditional engineering studied the ways of taking
the complexity out of the systems, we now have to allow complexity to
come back in, to complement the reductionism and learn to exploit the
epistemological ways of unifi cation and diversifi cation for our own good
(Kelso and Engstrom 2006, Longo et al. 2012).
Unaccompanied, the divergence way or the convergence way does
not quite grasp the essence of creativity required by self-evolvability.
Tendencies to diverge should interplay the tendencies to converge and
it is the metastable mixture of both that matters for high complexity
management.
The need for both epistemological ways fi nds a strong support in the
studies of metastable coordination ...