Continuing to use permaculture as a lens (Permaculture as a lens) has been a cool exercise. There is a loose connection I have a vague recollection about. It relates how activity happens on the edges of two systems (Urban edges spark permaculture magic).
In Sync (Sync The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order), he talks about how transitions between states are where the most activity occurs - a phase transition.
I already spoke (Urban edges spark permaculture magic) about how the tension between your current and future self can be seen as the connection spot between two systems. It's where the most activity and change occurs in personal growth as well as attracting marketers, all sorts of trainers and the like.
If that is an edge, then "edges" as seen in permaculture are the physical representation of a phase transition - the transition from one state to another. A phase transition is when a complex system is in the process of organizing itself (Sync The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order).
And that means edges can be understood as a power curve. A curve in the shape of a power law (Power Law).
#toolong