Metastability and Consilience.

Obstetrics as a medical science did not develop because we did not know how to give birth. It is pretty obvious that humans have been giving birth long before there was anything called medicine. Obstetrics is useful and was developed because we wanted to avoid injury or death of either the mother or child. Is it OK however if because of the arrogance of medicine we lose sight of the instinct of childbirth?

Coordination dynamics is the epitome of the neurophysics of complexity theory. Coordination dynamics is much bigger than just what children and animals do naturally, without training or language. But children and animals do it naturally, without training or language. 

Science, reason and intellect are not greater than this. But they are greater because of this. Collectively it is a paradigm shift that takes us backward and forward, into and beyond ourselves at the same time.

The simple anatomical pattern represents our sensory-motor coordination dynamics. This is far greater than a transitory fractal hint. It is the whole that is greater than the sum of its parts but it is also you and me.