Self-regulating systems are modular

Modularity is an important aspect of a self-regulating system:

As a result, a good balance in a living, breathing, and changing arrangement—be it a system of stars, states, or men—must be a mobile balance, a balance whose self-regulatory feature is derived from the independent existence of a great number of small component parts held together not in tight unity but elastic harmony.^[1]

A system that becomes too large will be decreasingly capable of self-regulation and must be modularized in order to become self-regulating:

In other words, if smallness represents nature’s mysterious principle of health, and bigness its principle of disease, division—the transformation of a controlled stable into a self-regulatory mobile balance through the splitting of its parts—must of necessity represent its principle of cure.^[2]

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See also:

• Modularity of a system affects resilience
• Modularity radically reduces risk
• Healthy systems are self-regulating