"If individuals begin...to act themselves to produce desired political results, cooperating and negotiating directly with others affected--then a new dispensation will emerge, something that we may not yet be able to describe. This is the phenomenon of 'emergence,' a key characteristic of complexity: that from the combined actions of many agents, acting according to their own microcosmic preferences and values, a new condition may emerge from the bottom up, almost unconsciously, and certainly without imposition by government, god or anyone else."