There are only about 1,880 Google hits for the query:
("coordinating change" OR "coordinated change" OR "to coordinate change")
This is surprisingly low, given how central I think this issue is to evolution (See Structure = Coordinated Heterogeneous Change?). Is there a different phrase for the same concept? E.g., Cooperative change?
Later, I used the plural, "changes," in the query:
("coordinating changes" OR "coordinated changes" OR "to coordinate changes")
And this resulted in about 6,250 hits. Still fewer than I would have expected. Also, "coordinated change" refers to the concept, while "coordinated changes" often refers to specific examples.
I did discover that "coordinated change" is often associated with attempt to refute Darwin's theory of evolution. It is part of the arguments around "irreducible complexity". Such critiques associate complexity of a change with the number of coordinated changes that would be needed to effect that change.
This reinforces my emerging understanding of complexity as a relative measure -- relative to a specific process, e.g., designing, building, using, repairing, changing -- not an absolute measure of an entity. Thus, "a software application is complex" is actually a non-sequitur (or at best an incomplete statement). The app may be simple to use, simple to install, and simple to update, but complex to design, complex to build, and complex to integrate. Furthermore, what makes these processes complex is the degree of coordination required. Thus, to manage complexity, we must modularize coordination.
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