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Learning and Enhancing Dynamical Systems Theory through the Body

∞OS focuses on ecological interaction, fluidity, waves, oscillations, metastability, resilience, and networks. Some key points: 1. Ecological interaction means being in relation to oneself, others, and the environment, and how the interacting parts affect the whole system and each other. 2. Exercises explore properties of fluids like viscosity, density, and surface tension to move fluidly and send/receive waves through mediums like air, water, and the body. 3. Metastability means systems are near a critical point with fluctuations following a 1/f scaling relation. This allows for better adaptability with numerous latent patterns. 4. Networks can represent processes over time or

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∞OS ACTIVATION SESSION, BERLIN, 23-24 MARCH 2019 “THE DYNAMICS OF NON EQUILIBRIUM STABILITY”
∞OS is a body~mind operating system. At its core is the practice of ecological interaction — in relation to oneself, to the people around, 
 and to the environment.
How can we develop, test and exchange various patterns of behaviour using physical experience? ideology = attitude
1. ECOLOGICAL INTERACTION
A certain idea of dynamic connectedness.The distinct interacting parts that affect one another and the totality they comprise.
 
 (and, in turn, get affected by that totality)
e.g. The first law of thermodynamics: heat energy cannot be created or destroyed — it is transferred from one location to another and is converted to and from other forms of energy.
hierarchies feedback loops
2. CONFLUENCE
Confluence — the ability of the different* 
 flows to merge. * different velocity, viscosity, density, surface tension etc.
Image: mixing the oceans, source: Quora
Image: Inhaler Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation, source:Team Consulting
∞OS is a study of fluid inter~action * air and gases are also fluids with low density
How to move in a fluid medium?
 
 How to move like a fluid medium?
A cell becoming an organism. Source:Aeon
Cross-Contextual Confluence
3.WAVES, OSCILLATIONS
A wave is a transfer of energy in a medium. * this happens through oscillations or vibrations
A simple sine wave traveling in time / space
At the core of every wave (transfer of energy) is
 a tension and release.
Sound waves are the propagations of air density / pressure change in space.The air is the medium.
Sea waves propagate through the water, as a result of the tension between the wind and the water, 
 storms, underwater disturbances and the gravitational pull (tides)
Animation of a half-wave dipole antenna radiating radio waves, showing the electric field lines 
 propagating through the electro-magnetic field medium, Source:Wikipedia
Human blood circulatory system. Source
Qi meridians in the body. Source: Intuitive Acupuncture
Kondratieff’s waves.The medium are the financial return on investment. Source
Prey-predator cycles.The medium for the waves is the number of species. Source.
In ∞OS we learn how to send the waves, 
 how to observe them, how to receive them, 
 and how to ride them. * on any scale
Exercise
 Self-Centering #innerwork #awareness #attention #meditation #vipassana
Exercise Full Breathing #breathing #meditation #yoga #integrity #completedness
Exercise Rhythmical Movement #breathing #walking #movement #stability
Exercise Body Fluidity #noguchitaiso #fluidity #waves #oscillations #relaxation #neutralization
Exercise Body Waves #noguchitaiso #systema #waves
Exercise Contraction / Expansion #noguchitaiso #systema #waves #breathing
Properties of Fluids 1. Viscosity 2. Density 3. Velocity 4. Surface tension #aerodynamics #fluids #freestyle #sensitivity #noguchitaiso #systema
4. METASTABILITY
systems are “metastable” when they are near their critical states, 
 the fluctuations in such systems follow 1/f scaling relation
 
 S(f) = 1/f, where S is the spectral power (amplitude), f is the frequency
Within a certain timespan / context: the higher is the value of the oscillation (e.g. an amplitude of movement or scale degree of change), the less frequent it is. The smaller the change, the more often it happens. Kello, C.T.,Anderson, G. G., Holden, J. G., &Van Orden, G. C. (2008)
Yamada, N. (1995). Examples of 1/f noise: electric circuits the flow of river Nile luminosity of stars
 coastal lines mountain objects stock market human posture oscillations healthy heart rhythm mood shifts Bak, P.,Tang, C., & Wiesenfeld, K. (1987) Katerndahl, D., Ferrer, R., Best, R., & Wang, C.-P. (2007).
disequilibrium in the mind = disequilibrium in the body D’Mello et al 2011 body movement fluctuations of individuals experiencing cognitive equilibrium was characteristic of correlated pink noise, but there was a whitening of the signal when participants experienced states that are diagnostic of cognitive distress such as anxiety, confusion, and frustration
compare with non-equilibrium stability:
Simple harmonic motion (a mass-spring system or a pendulum). Source:Wikipedia compare with non-equilibrium stability:
mass-spring system compare with non-equilibrium stability:
Metastability: numerous patterns of activity exist as latent potentials. = better Adaptability Kello, C.T.,Anderson, G. G., Holden, J. G., &Van Orden, G. C. (2008) e.g. a chased animal turning to fight or submission, 
 multitasking, 
 balancing on a rope, prey-predator relations in a changing environment
Bystritsky, a, Nierenberg, a a, Feusner, J. D., & Rabinovich, M. (2012). winnerless competition = maximizing the function Rabinovich, M. I., Huerta, R.,Varona, P., & Afraimovich,V. S. (2008).
How to modulate metastability?
When several processes with a varying frequency occur at once, their rhythms affect each other, but do 
 not sync, creating a complex trajectory that has a pattern that repeats in time (fractal 1/f noise).
• Big changes rare, small changes frequent
 • Several oscillatory processes at once (fluctuations)
 • Winnerless Competition (none takes over)
 • External influence
 • Shifting coordinate systems and perspectives How to modulate metastability?
Chimera states in three dimensions (Maistrenko et al 2015), Kuramoto oscillators
Paranyushkin 2012
Variability tension release contraction expansion fast slow
Exercise Adaptive Variability / 
 Copy + Paste a mix of #1, #2, #3, #4 - walking around and letting each other get influenced, while being aware of our own rhythms
Exercise Wave Synchronization #taichi #powerdynamics #systema
Exercise Shifting Weight Interaction #taichi #powerdynamics #systema
Exercise Pacing/Leading Sync - “KGB” #systema #balance #powerdynamics #infiltration
Exercise Assimilation in Movement #systema #balance #powerdynamics #contact
Exercise Leader / Follower Shift Dynamics + Adaptability #contemporarydance #powerdynamics #control #infiltration
RECAP
Confluence assimilate → redirect pacing leading
Confluence escalate → assimilate → redirect escalate anchor control
Confluence evasion
Metastability 1/f variability — adaptability wave — stability vector — intention
5. RESILIENCE
Resilience is the ability to maintain a certain form / intention, while also being sensitive to the environment.
qualities of robustness • modularity • feedback loops (positive and negative) • redundancy and diversity • coupling & decoupling Kitano, H. (2004). Biological robustness. Nature Reviews. Genetics, 5(11), 826–37
turbulence can be fixed with the onset of regular oscillations
 or increase the viscosity
Exercise resilience through breathing #dissipation #breathing #endurance
Exercise slow load endurance #systema #endurance #time
Exercise modularity exercise #systema #impact #endurance
Exercise keeping the distance
 #systema #noguchitaiso #impulse #medium in street fights immobility is the main problem (YouTube)
Exercise grab / avoid #systema
Exercise energy transfer (slow push) give receive both relaxed, no announcements
 #systema #noguchitaiso #impulse #medium
Exercise
 zooming out: 
 assimilation → redirection
 
 option [a]: “– trigger” __ #systema #balance #powerdynamics #contact
Exercise
 zooming out: 
 assimilation → redirection #systema #balance #powerdynamics #contact
Exercise
 zooming out: 
 assimilation → redirection
 
 option [b]: “+ trigger” /_ #systema #balance #powerdynamics #contact
Exercise
 zooming out: 
 assimilation → redirection #systema #balance #powerdynamics #contact
Exercise energy transfer (slow push) give receive while moving
 #systema #noguchitaiso #impulse #medium
robotics (simulation) for flat terrains, open loop limit cycle systems are the most efficient (in terms of speed of locomotion) chaotic controller with sensory feedback outperforms the other controllers in very difficult terrains and actually promotes the emergence of short synchronized movement patterns (Matey et al 2008)
chaos in animal search patterns (Reynolds et al 2016) animals often assume scale-free foraging intermittent search strategy, short deviations are mixed with long- range changes
Exercise group pushing exercise #chaos #balance #metastability #systema
Exercise putting everything together #contemporarydance #taichi #systema #noguchi #yoga #meditation remember about the 1/f fractal chaos dynamics!
6. NETWORKS
A network can be a representation of a process in time (e.g. a record of interactions) as well as a 
 physical infrastructure for informational flow In any case, the structure of the network determines the dynamic qualities it will have.
The most resilient system is the human brain perception - activation of different groups of neurons across the different frequency spectrums Rabinovich, M. I., & Muezzinoglu, M. K. (2010).Bhowmik, D., & Shanahan, M. (2013).
source: Nodus Labs / Complex Networks by Sole &Valverde 2004
Source: Connected Brains Watts, D. J., & Strogatz, S. H. (1998).
source: Christos Makropoulos small-world scale-free random high entropymedium entropy medium-low entropy
What is entropy?
Entropy is not a measure of disorder. The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy increases over time.A system strives towards an equilibrium, that is, equal distribution of energy across all of its elements. We associate it with disorder, but only because from our subjective perspective of life total 
 equilibrium is a stasis, death.
What is chaos?
Chaos is not disorder or randomness. In chaos theory chaotic system is the one that is sensitive to initial conditions, unpredictable in the short-term, but and may exhibit orderly behavior over time. 1/f (pink / fractal) noise is the symptom of a chaotic system. distribution of connections in small-world (scale free) networks follow the same power law as the 1/f noise.
If life represents a certain order, 
 time represents entropy,
 then chaos may be the product of this dialectic.
example from immunology Kuperman, M., & Abramson, G. (2001)
example from immunology networks with low entropy, high order – do not propagate networks with high entropy, random connections - propagate very quickly but very short-lived networks with scale-free (1/f) fractal (self-repetitive) structure, can both propagate and maintain
Therefore: the structure of our infrastructure will determine how oscillatory our system will be. The more independent oscillations are available, the more distinct states this system will have (metastability)