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Spontaneous order, also named self-organization in the hard sciences, is the spontaneous emergence of order out of seeming chaos. The term "self-organization" is more often used for physical changes and biological processes, while "spontaneous order" is typically used to describe the emergence of various kinds of social orders in human social networks from the behavior of a combination of self ...
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.
The name for this phenomenon is "Adaptation to the edge of chaos". Adaptation to the edge of chaos refers to the idea that many complex adaptive systems (CASs) seem to intuitively evolve toward a regime near the boundary between chaos and order. [19] Physics has shown that edge of chaos is the optimal settings for control of a system. [20]
Order from Chaos was an extreme metal band formed in 1987 in Kansas City, Missouri, by Pete Helmkamp, Chuck Keller and Mike Miller.They are recognised as being an extremely influential group in the early U.S. black metal scene, and served as a launching pad for its band members that went on to form such groups as Angelcorpse, Ares Kingdom, Revenge, Vulpecula, and Kerasphorus.
Chaos: Making a New Science is a debut non-fiction book by James Gleick that initially introduced the principles and early development of the chaos theory to the public. [1] It was a finalist for the National Book Award [ 2 ] and the Pulitzer Prize [ 3 ] in 1987, and was shortlisted for the Science Book Prize in 1989. [ 4 ]
Chaos and Order (or officially The Gap into Madness: Chaos and Order) is a science fiction novel by American writer Stephen R. Donaldson, the fourth book of The Gap Cycle series. [1] It was published in 1994.
The main catalyst for the development of chaos theory was the electronic computer. Much of the mathematics of chaos theory involves the repeated iteration of simple mathematical formulas, which would be impractical to do by hand. Electronic computers made these repeated calculations practical, while figures and images made it possible to ...
Computer programmer Felix "Dworkin" Croes, creator of the server software Dworkin's Game Driver or DGD, named the development MUD for his project The Pattern. [ 14 ] Esoterism scholar Kateryna Zorya remarked that the terms "Pattern" and "Logrus" from Zelazny's novels, like other influences from Western fantasy, have found their way into post ...