In the same way complexity thought helps to open up the world of choice, to identify that the hidden landscape of possibility (which we call phase or state space) is so much vaster that even the most imaginative thinkers have conceived. It is generally thought the universe has existed for some 15 billion years, yet even in terms of this prodigious timescale we (life as a whole) have explored such a negligible number of the available choices that the ratio of unexplored to explored options would exhaust the numerical capacity of the largest computer. Paraphrasing the words of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: "Phase Space is big. Really big. You won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it really is".
And complexity theory is going to set you loose in all of it...