In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.