36 Of Stability and Instability

Understanding the complementary nature can never only be about change and the instability of things. After all, things are things precisely because they persist, even if not permanently so. Stability, the resistance to change, strength to stand or endure, is a sine qua non of existence. A squiggle sense update of Aurelius's wisdom would be to say that stability and instability are always and everywhere at work, striking through causes and effects, leaving nothing permanently fixed—even change itself. Indeed, both the phenomena of stability and change in nature and the conceptual complementary nature of stability~instability are grounded in Coordination Dynamics (CD) as revealed by visualizations of the elementary Coordination Law.