... interre-lated and a multifunctional system. It connects con-cepts of systems, complexity, and chaos with features of stability and instability, linearity and nonlinearity, bifurcation, attractor, etc., ... order…[allowed by] a constant flow of en-ergy and matter through the system…[the] emergence of new structures and new forms of behavior…[which are] the hallmark of self-organization, [and] occurs only ... characteristics of smaller cy-cles and provides components to larger ones as well. Cycles express relatedness, a key characteristic of sys-tems, implying the interconnectedness and depend-ability of all...