Personas / metaconstructs gen001. Complexity & Chaos - Part 1 (Introduction) Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity. Chaos Theory and Complexity Theory: A non-technical introduction to the science of Chaos and Complexity. Self-organization. Self-organization occurs in a variety of physical, chemical, biological, robotic, social and cognitive systems. Common examples include crystallization, the emergence of convection patterns in a liquid heated from below, chemical oscillators, swarming in groups of animals, and the way neural networks learn to recognize complex patterns.
Overview[edit] The most robust and unambiguous examples[1] of self-organizing systems are from the physics of non-equilibrium processes. Self-organization is also relevant in chemistry, where it has often been taken as being synonymous with self-assembly. The concept of self-organization is central to the description of biological systems, from the subcellular to the ecosystem level. There are also cited examples of "self-organizing" behaviour found in the literature of many other disciplines, both in the natural sciences and the social sciences such as economics or anthropology.
Self-organization usually relies on three basic ingredients:[3] Physics[edit]