Telecom Computer Security Databases Handheld Devices Tech. My use of Duke Ellington was adressed to the Mezei response on the impossibility of manageing knowledge. That being said, however, I still must disagree with some of what you say.
Cooperative phenomena are simply global or system-wide effects.
The magic, if you will, comes, for example, from the ability of pairwise interactions to produce synchronized global effects. And, in fact, such types of physical phenomena are widely considered in the study and exploration of evolution, as is discussed in J. D. Murray's Mathematical Biology, and M.V. Volkenshtein's Biophysics. Eliza on Knowledge, Art and Ethics etc.