Any set of two or more interacting beings may be regarded as a synergy. Two people in a conversation, two people bumping into each other on the street, a bee visiting flowers and polinating them, or two armies at war may all be regarded as synergies. All of them involve interactons or systems of interaction between two or more beings or centers of action.
Synergies can involve beings interacting or working together in any way or for any reason.
To qualify as a synergy, beings need not be interacting or working together for a common purpose. These will be discussed later in this chapter. A synergy, then, is any set of two or more interacting beings. The larger synergy to which a part-synergy belongs may itself belong to a still larger synergy, and it may belong to a still larger synergy, and so forth until the ultimate synergy or universe as a whole is reached. Now I want to consider various ways of breaking down or analyzing synergies.