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Self-organization, also called spontaneous order in the social sciences, is a process where some form of overall order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system. The process can be spontaneous when sufficient energy is available, not needing control by any external agent. It is often triggered by seemingly random…
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TTTA extracted 123 structured relationships around Self-organization. Examples in this analysis include Self-organization → is a → phenomenon that occurs across various fields and Self-organization → is a → example of the related concept of emergence.Self-organization relies on four basic ingredients. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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Source: Wikipedia — Self-organization · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout