Category Archives: Self-organization

Self-organization and Emergence in Life Sciences

Posted on May 25, 2017 by

The concept of self-organization takes a growing place in the evolution of  contemporary sciences. Coming from the second cybernetics, which developed in USA at the end of the 1950th, this concept had first implications in biological sciences in the context of the … Continue reading →

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Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

Emerging in the 1940s, the first cybernetics—the study of communication and control systems—was mainstreamed under the names artificial intelligence and computer science and taken up by the social sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. In Emergence and Embodiment, Bruce … Continue reading →

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