SELF-REORGANIZATION
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2982 ▶ |
| Object type | Human sciences, Epistemology, ontology or semantics, Methodology or model |
A more or less general re-arrangement of the structures and functions in a system.
Surprisingly, this phenomenon has not yet attracted a wide attention.
It is however a quite general one, of which numerous and varied examples are known: the molting of insects, crustaceae, and some vertebrates…, deep change in human organizations (re-engineering! - political and social mutations) and overall psychical (religious conversion for instance) or mental transformations (personal or at the level of so-called collective paradigm shifts).
Self-reorganization supposes the decay and dissolution of a specific ordering of the elements of the system and deep perturbations and even replacement of the existing processes .
However, this quite general loosening and unravelling of organization does not destroy some deeper plan or blueprint, which remains as a basic template for a new ordering.
CSANYI's autogenesis models , MATURANA's autopoiesis and PRIGOGINE's dissipative structuration in systems far from equilibrium could be useful in order to reach a better understanding and a good general theory of self-reorganization.
See also
Aura, Resilience