"Most forms of study taught in our schools relate to objects, facts are compartmentalised and learnt as discrete things,
collections of separate concepts, to be remembered in isolation from any connection with our everyday lives. This bias is
seen in the layout of encyclopaedias, in the structure of memory-related activities like 'Trivial Pursuit' or 'University
Challenge' and in our academic examination processes. This is a filing cabinet form of knowledge.

Complexity studies however relate to a very different form of knowledge, which comprises the connections between things and not the things themselves, in other words what is important is the patterns that the relationships form overall. It is the study of what happens when things are connected, when information can flow around the system and change the system properties. Thus it is the study of change rather than stability, of dynamics rather than statics, and is as such especially applicable to our modern highly dynamic world."  (Chris Lucas, CALResCo)