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Phase transitionsSpontaneous symmetry breakingSpontaneous magnetizationCrystal growthClassical physics
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Overview
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Overview
- Spontaneous order
- Social science
- Order Order and disorder
- System
- Fluctuations Statistical fluctuations
- Positive Positive feedback
- Decentralized
- Robust Robustness
- Self-repair Self-healing material
- Perturbation Perturbation theory
- Chaos theory
- Predictability
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Biology
- Collective behavior
- Ecology
- Communication networks
- Robotics
- Artificial intelligence
- Linguistics
- Urbanism
- Philosophy
- Engineering
- Crystallization
- Convection
- Chemical oscillation Chemical oscillator
- Swarming
- Neural circuits Neural circuit
- Black markets Black market
Principles
- William Ross Ashby
- Dynamic system
- Basin Attractor
- Heinz von Foerster
- Noise Noise (signal processing)
- Henri Atlan
- Complexity
- French French language
- Ilya Prigogine
- Simulated annealing
- Problem solving
- Machine learning
History
- Dynamics Dynamics (mechanics)
- Atomists Atomism
- Democritus
- Lucretius
- René Descartes
- Discourse on Method
- The World The World (Descartes)
- Immanuel Kant
- Critique of Judgment
- Teleology
- Sadi Carnot Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
- Rudolf Clausius
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Isolated system
- Lamarckism
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
- Gordon Pask
- Stafford Beer Anthony Stafford Beer
- Norbert Wiener
- General systems theory Systems theory
- Hermann Haken Synergetics (Haken)
- Complex system
- Erich Jantsch
- Dissipative system
- Autopoiesis
- System thinking
- Santa Fe Institute
- Complex adaptive system
- Emerging technologies
- Rhizomatic Rhizome (philosophy)
By field
- Phase transitions Phase transition
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking
- Spontaneous magnetization
- Crystal growth
- Classical physics
- Laser
- Superconductivity
- Bose–Einstein condensation
- Quantum physics
- Self-organized criticality
- Tribology
- Spin foam
- Loop quantum gravity
- Plasma Plasma (physics)
- Imbibition
- Molecular self-assembly
- Reaction–diffusion
- Oscillating reactions Oscillating reaction
- Autocatalytic Autocatalysis
- Liquid crystals Liquid crystal
- Grid complexes Grid complex
- Colloidal crystals
- Self-assembled monolayers Self-assembled monolayer
- Micelles Micelle
- Copolymers Copolymer
- Langmuir–Blodgett films Langmuir–Blodgett film
- Folding of proteins Protein folding
- Lipid bilayer
- Pattern formation
- Morphogenesis
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Nodes219
Edges218
Triples123
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009132
Components1
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Self-organization
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related to Cybernetics · 24
Self-organization → Animal, Ashby, By, Communication, Cybernetics, Eric Drexler, Focus, Foerster, Good Regulator, H/Hmax, He, Heinz, In, It, Machine, Norbert Wiener, Nyquist, Or Control, Potential Command, Redundancy
related to Principles · 13
Self-organization → Entre, Foerster, French, Heinz, Henri Atlan, Ilya Prigogine, In Ashby's, It, L'organisation, Once, The, This, William Ross Ashby
related to Economics · 8
Self-organization → Friedrich Hayek, Most, Neo-classical, On, Paul Krugman, The, The Self Organizing Economy, When
related to history · 8
Self-organization → Democritus, Discourse, He, Lucretius, Method, René Descartes, The, The World
related to Sociology · 8
Self-organization → Examples, For Luhmann, In, Luhmann, Niklas Luhmann, Spontaneous, Tell-tale, The
related to Computer science · 7
Self-organization → Cloud, If, In, Optimization, Phenomena, Self-organizing, These
related to Cosmology · 6
Self-organization → Cosmology, He, In, Lee Smolin, Per Bak, Therefore
related to Biology · 3
Self-organization → However, Stuart Kauffman, The
related to Physics · 3
Self-organization → Bose, Einstein, The
is a · 2
Self-organization → example of the related concept of emergence.Self-organization relies on four basic ingredients, phenomenon that occurs across various fields
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Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Self-organization | is a | phenomenon that occurs across various fields | 0.90 | text |
| Self-organization | is a | example of the related concept of emergence.Self-organization relies on four basic ingredients | 0.90 | text |
| cellular automata | instance of | Self-organization has also been observed in mathematical systems | 0.80 | text |
| Democritus | instance of | The ancient atomists | 0.80 | text |
| Lucretius believed that a designing intelligence is unnecessary to create order in nature | instance of | The ancient atomists | 0.80 | text |
| arguing that given enough time | instance of | The ancient atomists | 0.80 | text |
| space | instance of | The ancient atomists | 0.80 | text |
| matter | instance of | The ancient atomists | 0.80 | text |
| order emerges by itself.The philosopher René Descartes presents self-organization hypothetically in the fifth part of his 1637 Discourse on Method | instance of | The ancient atomists | 0.80 | text |
| spontaneous magnetization | instance of | By fieldPhysicsThe many self-organizing phenomena in physics include phase transitions and spontaneous symmetry breaking | 0.80 | text |
| crystal growth in classical physics | instance of | By fieldPhysicsThe many self-organizing phenomena in physics include phase transitions and spontaneous symmetry breaking | 0.80 | text |
| and the laser | instance of | By fieldPhysicsThe many self-organizing phenomena in physics include phase transitions and spontaneous symmetry breaking | 0.80 | text |
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