Synergy
Synergy is a technical term1 used in discussing the performance and dynamics attained in systems, here with harmonodes, systems of human habitat.
Types of Synergy
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Quantitative — sometimes synergy is described as being more than the sum of its parts and this can be seen very literally in the alloying of metals, synergy in the material that's made, where chrome nickel and steel have strengths of x and y and z on their own, but when alloyed together have a strength far greater than x+y+z.
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Symbiotic Pairings — like:
- letting sheep and chickens mingle and graze together
- growing carrots and onions adjacent to each other
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Emergent Properties — attaining effects/properties like:
- self-repairing in Todd's living machines.
- self-heating in Solviva greenhouse and New Alechemy Arks and other bioshelter type things.
...which emerge from a broader optimization among the system's components (rather than among just two components in a symbiotic pair).
Synergies like these are hugely profound, thus the need for adding harmonode to our lexicon here.
We must explore this categorization of synergies, this pattern analysis, much more. These considerations pertaining to human habitat have never been made in our society, this is a catastrophically un-explored area.
Synergy compared to efficiency
The State of VT has a program called Efficiency Vermont which will subsidize the insulation of old houses to attain greater efficiency in the buildings' heating systems, it might save the homeowners 30% or more on their heating bill.
Synergy would be eliminating the heating bill altogether while attaining new services (such as sauna) additionally.
Seeking desired effects: easily provision healthy housing for everyone
Employing numerous strategies, from space-optimization of individual rooms to elimination of apartment kitchens in preference of community dining hall, elimination of hallways and staircases, to . ...creating whole villages
...constrained by this concept/notion/paradigm of "apartment building"