labile

“For here, all systems are open systems; they are labile and suffused with temporality; they are sensitive and chaotic in the sense that they are creative and adaptive – they ceaselessly undergo change, produce novelty; they transform or transmit unactualized potentials to a new milieu, in turn giving rise to whole new series of potentials to be actualized or not. Open systems are thus not open only to the ‘outside’, but to wild becoming itself – the outside of all outsides.”

-Sanford Kwinter, Architectures of Time

labile adj. apt to lapse or err; unstable.

from Late Latin labilis, from Latin labi, “to slip.”

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