Synopsis:
- Self-organizing systems: the fundamental force that counteracts the universal drift towards disorder
- Structure arises from the interaction of many independent units
- Complexity can be formally defined as nonlinearity
- Spontaneous emergence of order, or self-organization of complex systems, is ubiquitous
- Organisms change their interactions in such a way to reach the boundary between order and chaos
- Systems at the boundary between order and chaos have the flexibility to adapt rapidly and successfully
- Living organisms are a particular type of complex adaptive systems
- Life was not only possible and probable, but almost inevitable
- A universal law of emergent collective behavior of complex chemical networks
- Nature herself does the job that God was supposed to do: creation of order
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