In addition to making us reconsider our notions of time, chaos theory also prompts us to rethink our notions of observer objectivity. I do not mean that science thus becomes idiosyncratically subjective. Chaotic phenomena are subject to objective mathematical description, just as the phenomena examined by classical physics are. Nevertheless, the observer becomes acknowledged as an integral part of the meaning-making process.40 In a 1981 Stanford symposium on order and disorder,Edgar Morin describes this interconnection: