So which is the cyclops, the bottom up process, or the top down pattern?

It seems there is a feedback loop between them.

For example, politics is top down, as well as centripetal, in that it tries to organize socieety into a functional system.

While economics is bottom up, as well as centrifugl, as the various players expand out tot he limits of the resources and possibilties.

Nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems. There is necessarily feedback between them.

Specialists and generalists. Feedback.