此书的英文名是《thes tarfish and the spider》,直译为《海星与蜘蛛》。海星与蜘蛛,前者没有中枢神经系统,神经细胞分散于身体各处。斩其一肢,不仅可修复,连残肢亦可长成一只新海星;后者有大脑控制全身行动,斩其头即死。故海星喻自下而上的分权式自组织,蜘蛛喻自上而下的科层集权制。 The book’s English name is “thes tarfish and the spider”, literally translated as “starfish and spider.” Starfish and spiders, the former has no central nervous system, nerve cells scattered throughout the body. Cut one of its limbs, not only can be repaired, even the residual limb can grow into a new starfish; the latter have brain control of the whole body action, cut their heads that is dead. Therefore, the starfish metaphor from the bottom up decentralized self-organization, spider metaphor hierarchy from top to bottom.