An organism will change to maintain its identity. Everything participates in the creation and evolution of its neighbors. There are no unaffected outsiders. No one system dictates conditions to another. All participate together in creating the conditions of their interdependence.
Life is creative.
It makes it up as it goes along, changing the rules even. This behavior flies in the face of the logic we inherited about how the world works. Most of us grew up in a world where we believed things existed in a fixed and independent state. Things could be understood by analysis. Laws and principles could be extracted from observations of their behavior.