Self Organizing

not centrally-managed hierarchy

see Self Organized, Self Directed, Self Organization

see Emergence

Cosma Shalizi says

• Properly defined, however, there can be self-organization without Emergence and emergence without self-organization. There is a link between them, but it's fairly subtle. See ch. 11 the dissertation.

• Self-organization in action: some instances of Evolutionary Computation and Darwin Machines; qwerty; Cellular Automata (some of them), Dissipative Structure, and Pattern Formation in general; the so-called Edge Of Chaos. Nest Building by SocialInsects. Flock Ing.

  • If we can quantify Self Organization in anything, we can do it in Cellular Automata. (in "Is the Primordial Soup Done Yet?", which also notes some issus with the concept of Entropy.)