Ei, vaan (luonnontieteissä) nimenomaan siihen, että luonnonlakien puitteissa systeemi on sellainen, että sillä on edullisempia ja vähemmän edullisia tiloja, jonka vuoksi se hakeutuu niihin edullisiin. Yleensä se on jonkinlainen energiaminimi. Esimerkiksi kristallien muodostuminen on usein annettu esimerkki. Hiekkadyynit (ja tuuli osana systeemiä) voisi olla toinen. Pienemmällä skaalalla esim kemiassa näitä on paljon.
Suomenkielisen wikipedian selitys on suppea ja esimerkikit liittyvät yhteiskuntaan, joten englanniksi:
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.
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Self-organization is realized[2] in the physics of non-equilibrium processes, and in chemical reactions, where it is often characterized as self-assembly. The concept has proven useful in biology, from the molecular to the ecosystem level.[3] Cited examples of self-organizing behavior also appear in the literature of many other disciplines, both in the natural sciences and in the social sciences (such as economics or anthropology). Self-organization has also been observed in mathematical systems such as cellular automata.[4] Self-organization is an example of the related concept of emergence.[5]
Self-organization relies on four basic ingredients:[6]
- strong dynamical non-linearity, often (though not necessarily) involving positive and negative feedback
- balance of exploitation and exploration
- multiple interactions among components
- availability of energy (to overcome the natural tendency toward entropy, or loss of free energy)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization
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