Although systems theory offers powerful tools for analysing how social systems cope with complexity through differentiation, codes and programmes, it provides only a limited account of how psychic systems remain operable when symbolic demands exceed the integrative capacity of reflexive consciousness.

It consists of two key components: The ‘Declarative Processing Environment’, which allows processes to be assembled goal-driven from a pool of process building blocks and the ‘Autopoietic Framework’ that mimics natural organisms to adapt to environmental changes, new capabilities and new technology.

law is presented as capable of reproducing itself in the style of an hermaphrodite.