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Contexts of self-organizing non-linearity
Physical:
Garden growing wild.
Broader:
Access to contained irrationality
Cultivation of productive non-linearity
Maintaining distinctions between contextual levels
Appropriate relationship of non-linearity to structures
Blended integration of formal structure and informal context
Functional enhancement of domains separating complementary structures
Structural development designed to counteract deficiencies in pattern harmony
Contexts for exploratory relationship formation challenging emerging perspectives
Narrower:
Ambiguous boundaries
Protecting variability to enhance fixity
Sites for grounding perspectives in non-linearity
Insight capturing non-linear extensions of structures