A symmathesy is a living system formed through contextual mutual learning. Its participants and environment continually affect one another: relationships change, feedback circulates, and the system learns as it adapts. The term combines sym, “together,” with mathesi, “to learn.” section 3.1.1
A coding community as a living system
The Camerata illustrates a symmathesy: people learn from one another while their environment changes around them. Critical feedback keeps a coding meetup from becoming an echo chamber, where shared assumptions go unchallenged. Try opening the next discussion by asking whether ideas are being explored or merely accepted. section 3.1.1
func changeSelf() {
changeEnvironment()
}
func changeEnvironment() {
changeSelf()
}
This small recursive listing evokes the mutual change between a system and its environment: changing one changes the other, without a final frozen state. section 3.1.1
