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Princeton's WordNet

  1. self-organization, self-organisationnoun

    organizing yourself (especially organizing your own labor union)

Wiktionary

  1. self-organizationnoun

    A process of attraction and repulsion in which the internal organization of a system, normally an open system, increases in complexity without being guided or managed by an outside source.

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  1. Self-organization

    Self-organization, also called spontaneous order in the social sciences, is a process where some form of overall order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system. The process can be spontaneous when sufficient energy is available, not needing control by any external agent. It is often triggered by seemingly random fluctuations, amplified by positive feedback. The resulting organization is wholly decentralized, distributed over all the components of the system. As such, the organization is typically robust and able to survive or self-repair substantial perturbation. Chaos theory discusses self-organization in terms of islands of predictability in a sea of chaotic unpredictability. Self-organization occurs in many physical, chemical, biological, robotic, and cognitive systems. Examples of self-organization include crystallization, thermal convection of fluids, chemical oscillation, animal swarming, neural circuits, and black markets.

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  1. self-organization

    Self-organization is a process in which patterns or structures emerge spontaneously, without being externally directed or controlled. This phenomenon occurs in a variety of physical, chemical, biological, social, and cognitive systems. It involves components interacting with each other, following specific rules, and adapting to their environment, leading to the creation of new, complex structures or behaviors.

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  1. Self-organization

    Self-organization is a process where some form of global order or coordination arises out of the local interactions between the components of an initially disordered system. This process is spontaneous: it is not directed or controlled by any agent or subsystem inside or outside of the system; however, the laws followed by the process and its initial conditions may have been chosen or caused by an agent. It is often triggered by random fluctuations that are amplified by positive feedback. The resulting organization is wholly decentralized or distributed over all the components of the system. As such it is typically very robust and able to survive and self-repair substantial damage or perturbations. Self-organization occurs in a variety of physical, chemical, biological, social and cognitive systems. Common examples are crystallization, the emergence of convection patterns in a liquid heated from below, chemical oscillators, the invisible hand of the market, swarming in groups of animals, and the way neural networks learn to recognize complex patterns.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-organization in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-organization in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of self-organization in a Sentence

  1. Nicolas Rivron:

    What we did is, for the first time, we managed to promote the self-organization of stem cells into a very early embryo in a dish -- so everything happened in the lab.


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