“Chaos is always there, chaos is part of any complex system. Chaos is a means of evolving or changing the system. You have to destabilize a system before you can restabilize it some place. It’s a myth to think that a system will change by little steps, adaptive steps, they’re not major changes. So when do you need chaos? Yes, there are times when you need chaos. If your current system is at the limits of its stability, its sustainability, then you have to change it. Then it has to loosen up its structures.So chaos is a state in which new relations can come into being because there are very sensitive, complex relationships between the elements of the system and changes propagate very fast from one part of the system to another. At the present time I think we need chaos, not to reach the point where it degenerates the system, where it endangers the entire system, but to the point where it allows constructive change to unfold.” - Ervin Laslo, author and founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group