“Every system that has existed emerged somehow, from somewhere, at some point. Complexity science emphasizes the study of how systems evolve through their disorganized parts into an organized whole.”

Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 118

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