Organodynamics	Grant Holland, Apr 25, 2014
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4. System Organization and Organizational Change Biology is overwhelmingly dominated by an interest in system organization and change in system organization. The fields of gene expression and regulation, ontogenesis (embryo development), immunology and evolutionary biology are preeminent example of the facts of this observation. But there are many examples outside of biology of complex dynamical systems for which change of system organization is of preeminent concern. These include: the design and development of massively distributed computer applications (my field), the design, implementation and evolution of networks of all kinds, and the design and continued development of megacities, to name a few.
	5. Organic Complex Systems Let’s give a name to the class of complex systems whose salient characteristics are (statically) system organization, and (dynamically) organizational change. Lets name this class organic complex systems, or OCS. This class of systems is perhaps better described by – let’s call it - topological change than by a trajectory of points in a manifold.

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