Then we need to apply this understanding to the reinvention and transformation of America's schools. The new vision of reality we are discovering is grounded in the interrelatedness and interdependence of phenomena. We must learn to see the world anew. The new view of science reveals a universe of inherent order. Nothing happens in a quantum world without something encountering something else.
Nothing is independent of the relationships that occur.
Even in the most seemingly chaotic systems, like the movement of clouds or the swirling motion of a liquid, an internal structure exists. It is self-referencing. One of the most powerful illustrations of this construct of emergent order is found in the field of complexity theory, that deals with the structure and order of complex, dynamic, and adaptive systems, such as an ecological system. What is so fascinating about these complex systems is that the order that emerges does so from a simple set of rules that govern the interaction of the individual components of the system to each other, and not the total system itself. From this interaction of the individual components, system stability emerges.