Self-organization
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Whenever any system spontaneously organizes itself without external assistance or design, it is a new kind of phenomenon.
Context
"In nature it is quite common to see systems that start disordered and featureless, but then spontaneously organize themselves to produces definite structures." [1] The first experiments focused on the power law from the natural occurrence of phenomenon like earthquakes. This evolved into Self-organization Criticality (SOC) in the work of Per Bak with sand piles.[2] and follow-on work in experimental realization.[3]How can the universe start with a few types of elementary particles at the big bang, and end up with life, history, economics, and literature? The question is screaming out to be answered bur it is seldom even asked. Why did the big bang not form a simple gas of particles, or condense into one big crystal? We see complex phenomena around us so often that we rake them for granted without looking for further explanation. In fact, until recently very little scientific effort was devoted to understanding why nature is complex.
References
- ↑ Stephan Wolfram, A New Kind of Science Wolfram (2002) ISBN 9781579550080
- ↑ Per Bak, How Nature Works - the science of self-organized criticality Springer (1996) ISBN 978-1-4757-5426-1
- ↑ Arka Banerjee, Self-organized criticality in sandpile models (2012-05-11) https://guava.physics.uiuc.edu/~nigel/courses/563/Essays_2012/PDF/banerjee.pdf
Other Material
- See the wiki page on Metabiology
