the.com/self organization
order shows up uninvited when nobody's in charge and everybody's just following local rules.
means a process where global pattern or structure emerges from local interactions among a system's parts, without any central controller directing the outcome.
from the term crystallized in cybernetics in the 1940s-60s, with Ashby and von Foerster asking how systems gain order from noise, then spread into thermodynamics via Prigogine's dissipative structures and later into biology, sociology, and complexity science.
ant coloniesno manager, yet trails and nests emerge perfectly
snowflakessix-fold symmetry from simple freezing rules alone
traffic jamsform and vanish with zero central coordination
prigogine's nobelwon for showing order feeds on energy flow