Organisms, Machines, and Thunderstorms: A History of Self-Organization, Part Two. Complexity, Emergence, and Stable Attractors

Part Two of this essay focuses on what might be called the third and most recent chapter in the history of self-organization, in which the term has been claimed to denote a paradigm shift or revolution in scientific thinking about complex systems. The developments responsible for this claim began in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keller, Evelyn F
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of California Press 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50263
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5116-852X