Cybernetics
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Self-organization |
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Definition |
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| Mode of
protection from environmental disturbances by way of an isolating device.
This is not a regulation but merely an unilateral defence against some specific kind of environmental disturbance. An example is the shell of a tortoise. Ability of a system able to construct and change its own behavior or internal organization.
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Principia Cybernetica (web) |
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| Attribute
of a system that changes its internal organization on its own account,
neighter in response to conditions in another system with which it may
interact nor as a consequence of its membership in a larger metasystem.
Self-organizing systems can only be explained from within and are in this regard autonomous (Krippendorff).
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Encyclopedia Autopoietica |
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| A feature
or quality of systems as a result of which some characteristic of the system
is determinea by the system itself. If this sounds vague, it is because
the term "self-organization" has been used in a variety of distinct
sences including:
self-creation -- the notion that a given system’s origin is somehow determined by its character or the specific circumstances in which it occurs. Cf. Hejl’s self-organizing system. self-configuration -- the notion that a given system actively determines the arrangement of its constituent parts. self-regulation -- the notion that a given system actively controls its course of its internal transformations, typically with respect to one or more parameters. self-steering -- the notion that a given system actively controls its course of activity within some external environment or a general set of possible states. self-maintenance -- the notion that a given system actively preserves itself, its form, and / or its functional status over time. self-(re)production -- the notion that a given system generates itself anew or produces other systems identical to itself. self-reference -- the notion that the significance of a given system’s character or behavior is meaningful only with respect to itself. These nuances are not mutually exclusive, and authors have invoked them in varying "mixtures". Any approach to treating enterprises as self-organizing entities should, therefore, consider which (or how many) of these connotations are being addressed, as well as what feature(s) of the given system are being addressed as "self-organizing" (Whitaker, 1995).
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International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics |
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| Ability
of a system able to construct and change its own behavior or internal
organization.
The construction of self-organization is quite different from its maintenance, once the organizations is completed. In the first stage, morphogenesis is important, even if the basic template of the system’s organization is already present and acting. In the second stage, when general organization is stabilized, it should possibly be useful to speak of self-reorganization.
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