All interdisciplinary cooperation (productive conversations) ought to

• Expand the existing space of possibilities in an unpredictable direction

– Positive feedback within consensually tolerable limits – Morphogenesis - Synergy

• Thereafter converge to innovative solutions

– not part of the space existing before or without interdisciplinary cooperation

• Resemble an evolutionary process that is inherently unpredictable

All interdisciplinary cooperation (productive conversations) ought to

• Expand the existing space of possibilities in an unpredictable direction

– Positive feedback within consensually tolerable limits -- Morphogenesis

• Thereafter converge to innovative solutions

– not part of the space existing before or without interdisciplinary cooperation

• Resemble an evolutionary process that is inherently unpredictable

I am suggesting that the space of possibilities or the number of choices (Hmax) can only be quantified in retrospect.

Interdisciplinary cooperation is evident when their products cannot be explained by the sum of lower-order collaborations

Is exclusively present

Is totally absent

Arithmetic artifact indicating its absence

The three binary cooperations

fully explain the total with

1 bit redundancy

(by my concept = over-determination)

Binary cooperation is absent

Tertiary cooperation is absent

Binary coopertation is all there is