Imagine an object made of grey matter of which the form is thought. The other forms that surround it are not reflected, they are absorbed as information. They fall as if through a fluid mirror so as to be completely and arithmetically processed by the memory metal. This object has no self-image, it has no consciousness and will not pass the mirror phase. In any case, it is no longer possible to discuss form in terms of something that is imposed from outside.
Nothing is so fluid, so intelligent and yet so purposeful.
There are moments when you can observe more fixed structures and patterns within the flock, but they will instantly disintegrate. You could describe this formation as a mixture of the fixed and the fluid, the crystalline and the amorphous, as something between object and process. It could also be called mesomorphous but this does not make it simpler to understand. You cannot create a flock but you can 'breed' it. Then you set the program in motion and suddenly a flock has come about out of nothing - you haven't designed it, you've generated it.