ORGANIZATION (Hetero-)
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2419 ▶ |
| Object type | Methodology or model |
According to E. PESSA: “It is commonplace … to speak of self-organization processes, but it would be better to speak of hetero-organization; that is, the control parameters are driven by the external environment, without any possibility for the (dynamical) system to counteract this influence” (1992, p.434).
This means that the system is self-organizing only as far as such process remains compatible with the environmental basic conditions. An oxygen-breathing living system cannot anymore organize itself if its environment becomes suddenly devoid of oxygen.
Without reaching such an extreme case, the system “… can …follow, in a passive way, the behavior of the external fluctuations, whose role, on the other hand, is only that of making explicit the richness of dynamic behavior implicitly contained … in the form (of the system)” (Ibid).
In other words, as stated by von FOERSTER, noise can be a source of order for a dynamic system.