Yeah no worries. Just thought I might have read a good reply to your point recently so decided to share. It's pretty solid definition, and book I read would supply one with very solid defense of it from first principles. I don't know them well enough myself to elaborate much, but I found them convincing
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Pg 69 if interested
That looks like it fits right in with previous thesis or theory I encountered, spontaneous order, self organized structures, emergence. The pattern, the behavior, seems self evident in natural structures.
It's a dense book, which I'd definitely have to read again before blabbering further, but the section addresses a lot of common objections very well and left me convinced it made sense.
"You become a conservative when you acknowledge that government is the problem, not the solution."
This guy conservatives, excuse the lazy lingo
After some cursory web search the title alone of "The Great Fiction" by Hans-Hermann Hoppe also appears to tackle the action and reaction, or evaluation issue pretty head on.