If one pays attention to noise, however, one might get the chance to recognize a radically new pattern and create a new order out of it. Complexity science is an analytical tool that can help us understand many different things, from atomic processes to everyday events. Fortunately for us, order has a tendency to be self-reinforcing. An individual is affected by its neighbor, and it, in turn, affects its neighborhood. A stable predictable environment develops, and stable law-like behavior emerges.
Stable systems continue to acquire stability and greater diversity through natural selection.
The dominant aesthetic of indeterminacy of the past several decades has represented reality as radically unstable system, perpetually heading toward more and more disorder. This isn't necessarily the case, however many artists and curators of chaos are invested in the idea that it is. To take a good example, in the fall of 1998, the Guggenheim SoHo exhibited their attachment to old erroneous ideas when they featured Thomas Hirschhorn's Very Deviated Products . The storefront windows along Broadway were replaced by temporary Plexiglas constructions, as if the museum had gone bankrupt and been closed for demolition. The windows were then filled with heaps of trash.