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" "Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without,
but an equilibrium which is set up from within."

José Ortega y Gasset, Mirabeau and Politics, 1927

"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity,
which is to be what one is and no other."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, La Citadelle, 1948, ch"

"Self-Organization

But where have we seen self-organization before ? Well, in the field of Artificial Life, which studies those emergent features that result from the interactions of multiple agents following their own local laws. So, what determines which emergent properties occur ? That is precisely the question we are trying to answer. The phenomenon of emergence we could call Extropy, the tendency of systems to create order from chaos - the opposite of Entropy. Generally this term isn't used, instead Self-Organization is the general term employed, with other terms like Autopoiesis and Homeokinetics used in some contexts. Bird Flocking

Is this phenomenon widespread ? Yes, it certainly is, stretching from the organisation of galactic superclusters, via planets, all forms of life (e.g. bird flocking), to inorganic chemistry and perhaps even atomic structure. Complexity Theory searches for the laws that apply at all scales, the inherent constraints on visible order. "


VS human beings are self organizing systems