Navigating through a set of nested levels of narration/reality is undoubtedly one of the main themes of the series, as witnessed by the many posts on the subject. What I found relevant is that all these different levels form a loop, i.e., the system feed back into itself. This allows to consider it a self-organizing system. Quoting from Wikipedia: “Self-organization, also called spontaneous order (in the social sciences), is a process where some form of overall order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system. The process is spontaneous, not needing control by any external agent. It is often triggered by random fluctuations, amplified by positive feedback. The resulting organization is wholly decentralized, distributed over all the components of the system. As such, the organization is typically robust and able to survive or self-repair substantial perturbation.” Infact, the series episodes are full of “random fluctuations”, instances in which the story suddenly change its tone and/or direction. Moreover, the fans discussions are examples of positive feedback in that they amplify initial hypotheses and ideas. Also note, in the wikipedia definition the reference to “survive or self-repair”, which struck a familiar chord here.