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Self-organization

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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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
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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
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related to Computer science · 7
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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
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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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Self-organizationis aphenomenon that occurs across various fields0.90text
Self-organizationis aexample of the related concept of emergence.Self-organization relies on four basic ingredients0.90text
cellular automatainstance ofSelf-organization has also been observed in mathematical systems0.80text
Democritusinstance ofThe ancient atomists0.80text
Lucretius believed that a designing intelligence is unnecessary to create order in natureinstance ofThe ancient atomists0.80text
arguing that given enough timeinstance ofThe ancient atomists0.80text
spaceinstance ofThe ancient atomists0.80text
matterinstance ofThe ancient atomists0.80text
order emerges by itself.The philosopher René Descartes presents self-organization hypothetically in the fifth part of his 1637 Discourse on Methodinstance ofThe ancient atomists0.80text
spontaneous magnetizationinstance ofBy fieldPhysicsThe many self-organizing phenomena in physics include phase transitions and spontaneous symmetry breaking0.80text
crystal growth in classical physicsinstance ofBy fieldPhysicsThe many self-organizing phenomena in physics include phase transitions and spontaneous symmetry breaking0.80text
and the laserinstance ofBy fieldPhysicsThe many self-organizing phenomena in physics include phase transitions and spontaneous symmetry breaking0.80text

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