Self-organization is the process where a structure or pattern appears in a system without a central authority or external element imposing it. This globally coherent pattern appears from the local interaction of the elements that makes up the system, thus the organization is achieved in a way that is parallel (all the elements act at the same time) and distributed (no element is a coordinator).

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call the generic typical state of the system has spatial and temporal patterns Fields of this type are now called excitable media see for example Belousov Zhabotinsky reaction Self organizing systems

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finally a pictorial update on self similarity created implosion gravity synchronicity awareness

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Brown to win without the energy and the self-organization that the people called the Tea Party did for him, Graham said. Yesterday, Brown called into ...



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These answers can only come through struggle from below, through the self-organization of the workers, the unemployed, the casually-employed and migrant ...
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By its nature, talk of how to confront climate change implies discussing strategy, self-organization , planning and the tasks that lie ahead for those of us ...



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How does the collapse of the theory of evolution demonstrate the truth of creation?
Q. WHEN we ask how life on Earth emerged, we find two different answers: One is that living things emerged by evolution. According to the theory of evolution, which makes this claim, life began with the first cell, which itself emerged by chance or by some hypothetical natural laws of "self-organization." Again as a result of chance and natural laws, this living cell developed and evolved, and by taking on different forms gave rise to the millions of species of life on Earth. The second answer is "Creation." All living things came into existence by being created by an intelligent Creator. When life and the millions of forms it takes, which could not possibly have come into existence by chance, were first created, they had the same… [cont.]
Asked by Jalandibulan - Sat Oct 6 21:36:23 2007 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. 1. It is not true that thre are only two, necessarily exclusive possibilities. For example, other possibilities that are consistent with a Creator *and* with Evolution: - The Creator created the universe with laws designed to make both the emergence of life, and its evolution possible, if not inevitable. - The Creator directly initiated life, but did not interfere with evolution. - The Creator initiated evolution, and directed it at some, or perhaps all critical points. - What appears as "random chance" is actually determined by the Creator. 2. Even if there really were only two known alternatives (which there are not), and even if evolution was disproved (which it is not), that does not relieve you of the burden to show evidence for… [cont.]
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If brain work like bio-computer .? ?
Q. If brain work like bio-computer .? So we have three possibilities; a) the bio- computer works by self - organization program b) something manages this bio- computer. c) the bio- computer works : 50% and 50% (consciousness and subconsciousness ) ===.. a , b or c and why ?
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A. I like A. The brainworks by organizing information and then relies on it for later use. One example is the called the frankenbot, which is controlled by rat brain neurons. good luck.
Answered by sci219 - Mon Sep 1 10:45:51 2008

last one please?
Q. In conclusion, going blind may seem hard at first and may feel like the end of the world, but with time it gets better. A blind person can do the same thing they used to do only this time with help. Driving around, organizing personal items and learning to read Braille requires help. At the end its worth it to make the most of being blind. Overall, a person s self organization, Braille ability, and training of the other senses would be huge factors for survival.
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A. same things they used to do... Getting from place to place, organizing personal items and... In the end, it's worth the effort to make the most
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