Organodynamics

Grant Holland, Apr 25, 2014

Slide: Organic Complex Systems (OCS)
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Organizing principles of highly complex systems:

 

Organization: Systems are an organization of components. This organization defines their state.

 

Emergence: the system exhibits a property that none of its components does.

 

Compositeness: Some components are also systems.

 

Reorganization: Systems change state by reorganizing.

 

Persistent: These seven properties promote continued existence of the system.

 

Uncertainty: The time evolution of organizational change is unpredictable, with varying degrees of unpredictability.

 

Autocoorganizational: Each system component participates in creating, maintaining and organizing the other components.

 

 

Highly Complex Systems

 

While organization, reorganization and uncertainty are the central themes of organodynamicsÉ

 

There is a lot more to highly complex systems Ð such as biological systems Ð than is captured by these three systemic properties alone.

 

Here we add four moreÉ

 

á      Emergence

á      Compositeness

á      Persistence

á      Autocoorganization

 

 

These seven properties define a class of highly complex systems that are the target of interest of organodynamics.

 

Any system that exhibits these seven properties we shall call organic complex systems, and are the subject of organodynamics as a dynamical systems theory.

 

The remainder of this presentation will present some preliminary ideas on autocoorganization. These ideas are not at this time fully developed, and can be considered as architecture of a theory of regulation of organic complex systems.

 Biological systems have inspired the above definition of OCS.

 

However, any system that exhibits the seven properties qualifies as an OCS.

 

Thus, OCS can be understood as one reasonable way to generalize the notion of ÒlivingnessÓ.

 

 

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