The three quotations below somewhat define “self-organization,” although the linked article from Wikipedia, their source, is much more in-depth.
Following these quotes, I share my own rationale for this search.
“In open systems, where there is constant inflow and outflow of energy and elements, this final state is never reached, but the system always tends toward it.[11] This method can help describe, quantify, manage, design and predict future behavior of complex systems, to achieve the highest rates of self-organization to improve their quality, which is the numerical value of their organization. It can be applied to complex systems in physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, economics, cities, network theory and others, where they are present.[11][15][16]”
“In social theory the concept of self-referentiality has been introduced as a sociological application of self-organization theory by Niklas Luhmann (1984). For Luhmann the elements of a social system are self-producing communications, i.e. a communication produces further communications and hence a social system can reproduce itself as long as there is dynamic communication. For Luhmann human beings are sensors in the environment of the system.{p410 Social System 1995} Luhmann developed an evolutionary theory of Society and its subsytems, using functional analyses and systems theory. {Social Systems 1995}.
Self-organization in human and computer networks can give rise to a decentralized, distributed, self-healing system, protecting the security of the actors in the network by limiting the scope of knowledge of the entire system held by each individual actor. The Underground Railroad is a good example of this sort of network. The networks that arise from drug trafficking exhibit similar self-organizing properties. The Sphere College Project seeks to apply self-organization to adult education. Parallel examples exist in the world of privacy-preserving computer networks such as Tor. In each case, the network as a whole exhibits distinctive synergistic behavior through the combination of the behaviors of individual actors in the network. Usually the growth of such networks is fueled by an ideology or sociological force that is adhered to or shared by all participants in the network.[11]”
I have often contemplated, without trying to do so, the status of my black people in: American society, the western hemisphere, Africa, and the world.
In so doing, the marvel of it all has given me pause. How could a pastoral and peace-loving people be torn asunder—from natal land and family, language and culture, love and nurture, flora and fauna; then, be transported in the fetid holds of slave-ships for weeks across stormy seas to a new land by strange, violent , uncaring white people--and still survive?
It is a modern marvel of human existence. Perhaps, it is a marvel of non-human existence too, whether ancient or modern.
Such involuntary contemplation, or racial meditation, has led me to inquire into self-organization. As applied to my black people, it takes on a divinely cosmological aspect intersecting all disciplines, vortices, and vectors. Affirmation of the validity of my inquiry was received when I read that the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, that self-organizing method of escape from Southern bondage utilized by African American slaves, was identified as a manifestation of that self-organization principle in the human context, in the linked article from Wikipedia above.
That find has encouraged me to continue the quest and the inquiry.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
SELF-ORGANIZATION
SELF-ORGANIZATION
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
Saturday, November 01, 2014
The three quotations below somewhat define “self-organization,” although the linked article from Wikipedia, their source, is much more in-depth.
Following these quotes, I share my own rationale for this search.
“In open systems, where there is constant inflow and outflow of energy and elements, this final state is never reached, but the system always tends toward it.[11] This method can help describe, quantify, manage, design and predict future behavior of complex systems, to achieve the highest rates of self-organization to improve their quality, which is the numerical value of their organization. It can be applied to complex systems in physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, economics, cities, network theory and others, where they are present.[11][15][16]”
“In social theory the concept of self-referentiality has been introduced as a sociological application of self-organization theory by Niklas Luhmann (1984). For Luhmann the elements of a social system are self-producing communications, i.e. a communication produces further communications and hence a social system can reproduce itself as long as there is dynamic communication. For Luhmann human beings are sensors in the environment of the system.{p410 Social System 1995} Luhmann developed an evolutionary theory of Society and its subsytems, using functional analyses and systems theory. {Social Systems 1995}.
Self-organization in human and computer networks can give rise to a decentralized, distributed, self-healing system, protecting the security of the actors in the network by limiting the scope of knowledge of the entire system held by each individual actor. The Underground Railroad is a good example of this sort of network. The networks that arise from drug trafficking exhibit similar self-organizing properties. The Sphere College Project seeks to apply self-organization to adult education. Parallel examples exist in the world of privacy-preserving computer networks such as Tor. In each case, the network as a whole exhibits distinctive synergistic behavior through the combination of the behaviors of individual actors in the network. Usually the growth of such networks is fueled by an ideology or sociological force that is adhered to or shared by all participants in the network.[11]”
I have often contemplated, without trying to do so, the status of my black people in: American society, the western hemisphere, Africa, and the world.
In so doing, the marvel of it all has given me pause. How could a pastoral and peace-loving people be torn asunder—from natal land and family, language and culture, love and nurture, flora and fauna; then, be transported in the fetid holds of slave-ships for weeks across stormy seas to a new land by strange, violent , uncaring white people--and still survive?
It is a modern marvel of human existence. Perhaps, it is a marvel of non-human existence too, whether ancient or modern.
Such involuntary contemplation, or racial meditation, has led me to inquire into self-organization. As applied to my black people, it takes on a divinely cosmological aspect intersecting all disciplines, vortices, and vectors. Affirmation of the validity of my inquiry was received when I read that the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, that self-organizing method of escape from Southern bondage utilized by African American slaves, was identified as a manifestation of that self-organization principle in the human context, in the linked article from Wikipedia above.
That find has encouraged me to continue the quest and the inquiry.
The three quotations below somewhat define “self-organization,” although the linked article from Wikipedia, their source, is much more in-depth.
Following these quotes, I share my own rationale for this search.
“In open systems, where there is constant inflow and outflow of energy and elements, this final state is never reached, but the system always tends toward it.[11] This method can help describe, quantify, manage, design and predict future behavior of complex systems, to achieve the highest rates of self-organization to improve their quality, which is the numerical value of their organization. It can be applied to complex systems in physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, economics, cities, network theory and others, where they are present.[11][15][16]”
“In social theory the concept of self-referentiality has been introduced as a sociological application of self-organization theory by Niklas Luhmann (1984). For Luhmann the elements of a social system are self-producing communications, i.e. a communication produces further communications and hence a social system can reproduce itself as long as there is dynamic communication. For Luhmann human beings are sensors in the environment of the system.{p410 Social System 1995} Luhmann developed an evolutionary theory of Society and its subsytems, using functional analyses and systems theory. {Social Systems 1995}.
Self-organization in human and computer networks can give rise to a decentralized, distributed, self-healing system, protecting the security of the actors in the network by limiting the scope of knowledge of the entire system held by each individual actor. The Underground Railroad is a good example of this sort of network. The networks that arise from drug trafficking exhibit similar self-organizing properties. The Sphere College Project seeks to apply self-organization to adult education. Parallel examples exist in the world of privacy-preserving computer networks such as Tor. In each case, the network as a whole exhibits distinctive synergistic behavior through the combination of the behaviors of individual actors in the network. Usually the growth of such networks is fueled by an ideology or sociological force that is adhered to or shared by all participants in the network.[11]”
I have often contemplated, without trying to do so, the status of my black people in: American society, the western hemisphere, Africa, and the world.
In so doing, the marvel of it all has given me pause. How could a pastoral and peace-loving people be torn asunder—from natal land and family, language and culture, love and nurture, flora and fauna; then, be transported in the fetid holds of slave-ships for weeks across stormy seas to a new land by strange, violent , uncaring white people--and still survive?
It is a modern marvel of human existence. Perhaps, it is a marvel of non-human existence too, whether ancient or modern.
Such involuntary contemplation, or racial meditation, has led me to inquire into self-organization. As applied to my black people, it takes on a divinely cosmological aspect intersecting all disciplines, vortices, and vectors. Affirmation of the validity of my inquiry was received when I read that the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, that self-organizing method of escape from Southern bondage utilized by African American slaves, was identified as a manifestation of that self-organization principle in the human context, in the linked article from Wikipedia above.
That find has encouraged me to continue the quest and the inquiry.