A part aligns up to a higher level of complexity for what it needs to integrate with. It aligns at the same level for cooperation. It creates links to lower levels of complexity to control other parts and achieve manifestation. Each network node has a degree of autonomy and self-reliance. Self-reliance is a property that emerges at a particular level of complexity; it describes the part’s ability to manipulate its environment independently of the larger whole. Self-reliance ensures that parts are organizationally stable and able to survive fluctuations and disturbances without the assistance of the network. The alignment to higher levels ensures the effective coordination of the larger whole and provides the part access to resources and emergent properties that exist only at the level of the whole.

Each whole is affected by its compounds and by the relations between them. A network can reach its optimum performance by aligning all parts’ connectivity. The quality of a network relies on the quality of connections in-between parts and their cooperation with higher levels of organization. A high level of organization implies systems of high complexity, flexibility and resources – this effects with capacity of choice, change, creativity and efficacy in life processes. Systems flexibility means level of resilience to internal and external disturbances in the system, and the level of adaptability to organizational and structural changes – in other words, capacity to survive.

Systems thinking signifies a shift of perspective from objects-as-things to objects-as-relations. While the mechanistic perspective allowed a single world as a collection of objects, systems thinking made way to worlds of patterns of probable connectivity.

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