Attractors provide the project and the design, with
properties similar to Drieschs entelechies.
For example, in order to build a house, we need building
materials and a project (an attractor) which determines the shape of the house.
If the project is different, the same building material can be used to produce
a different house.
When building a house there is a field that corresponds to
the project. The project is not present in the building materials, which can
therefore be used in many different types of projects. The project gives
stability and leads the building material to converge and cooperate together,
despite individual differences.
The project represents the
cohesive force of syntropy that brings parts together and contrasts the
diverging tendency of entropy.
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