  We argue that the coordination of the activities of individual complex agents
enables a system to develop and sustain complexity at a higher level. We
exemplify relevant mechanisms through computer simulations of a toy system, a
coupled map lattice with transmission delays. The coordination here is achieved
through the synchronization of the chaotic operations of the individual
elements, and on the basis of this, regular behavior at a longer temporal scale
emerges that is inaccessible to the uncoupled individual dynamics.
