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The self-organizing behavior of social animals and the self-organization of simple mathematical structures both suggest that self-organization should be expected in human society. Tell-tale signs of self-organization are usually statistical properties shared with self-organizing physical systems.
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 ...
3D representation of a living cell during the process of mitosis, example of an autopoietic system. The term autopoiesis (from Greek αὐτo-(auto) 'self' and ποίησις () 'creation, production'), one of several current theories of life, refers to a system capable of producing and maintaining itself by creating its own parts. [1]
Self-organization: A process in which the internal organization of a system, normally an open system, increases in complexity without being guided or managed by an outside source. Self-organizing systems : Systems that typically (though not always) display emergent properties .
One systemic definition of life is that living things are self-organizing and autopoietic (self-producing). Variations of this include Stuart Kauffman's definition as an autonomous agent or a multi-agent system capable of reproducing itself, and of completing at least one thermodynamic work cycle. [27]
Robert Rosen devoted a large part of his career, from 1958 [18] onwards, to developing a comprehensive theory of life as a self-organizing complex system, "closed to efficient causation". He defined a system component as "a unit of organization; a part with a function, i.e., a definite relation between part and whole."
Originally, Freud used the word ego to mean the sense of self, but later expanded it to include psychic functions such as judgment, tolerance, reality testing, control, planning, defense, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and memory. The ego is the organizing principle upon which thoughts and interpretations of the world are ...
Self-assembled monolayer; Self-assembly; Self-assembly of nanoparticles; Self-organization in cybernetics; Self-organized criticality; Self-organized criticality control; Self-organizing map; Self-perpetuation; Self-replicating machine; Social complexity; Social network; Social network analysis; Social network aggregation; Social objects