Autohypostata
Self-Organization
Autopoiesis
Tectology
The later Neoplatonists described emanated beings as autohypostata - "self-constituted". What this means is that beings do not come into existence from an external Creator without any choice on their part. Rather, they come forth voluntarily from the Source and shape themselves. This is also a concept found in Gnosticismand in the Egyptian Heliopolitan theology.
Erich Jantsch's Self-Organizing Universe -- a classic book on self-organization written before Maturana and Varela's development of autopoietic theory.
Autopoiesis
and Enaction: Observer Web - The largest Internet nexus on the
systemic theories of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. A very well
laid out site, which includes introductory materials, tutorial, reference
resources, links, and access to back issues of The Observer - an on-line
journal on this subject.
Athena
autopoiesis page Autopoiesis Homepage - The Journal of Autopoiesis
Autopoiesis Websites page
The
Ontological Foundations of Autopoietic Theory by Kent
Palmer, Ph.D. - On-line book
Self-Organization,
Autopoiesis, and Enterprises by Randall
Whitaker, PhD "'Self-organization' is a popular
theme in current studies of human social activity, enterprises, and information
technology (IT). This document introduces one well-developed theory of
self-organization (autopoietic theory) and discusses its application to
enterprises and their management......The term self-organization, after
decades of specialists' interest, has become an increasingly popular label
for phenomena which appear to determine their own form and process(es).
There is now widespread interest in applying theories of self-organization
to analysis and (re-)engineering of enterprises. 'Enterprise' is used here
to denote purposeful social collectives of any scale..."
A rather weighty tome, all on-line.
Complexity
International - an on-line journal on topics such
as artificial life, cellular automata, chaos theory, control theory, evolutionary
programming, fractals, genetic algorithms, information systems, neural
networks, non-linear dynamics, and parallel computation.
Very technical.
From Tectology
- the natural philosophy of organization in/into complexities
- John A. Mikes
Tectology (Bogdanov 1922) is the "missing link" of the natural sciences, the discipline of 'self-organization', the synthesis of higher complexities: the natural philosophy of organization i.e. build-up in(to) higher complexities i.e. the rules of prediction when components (self)organize into one unit developing a quality, different from those characteristics observable in the assembling components of the lower complexity. Tectology domains: material sciences computer science physical and life sciences cognitive sciences economy and social sciences developing a natural science philosophy to pave the way for the development of the practical disciplines. Examples of pattern complexities: marriage, living cells, body, insect society, evolution, ecology, mind, computer program - AI, economy, language and writing, military, galaxy formations, etc.
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