[The group behavior of fireflies] represents one of the few tractable instances of a complex, self-organizing system, where millions of interactions occur simultaneously -- when everyone changes the state of everyone else.

Steven Strogatz: Sync: how order emerges from chaos in the universe, nature and daily life (2003)

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