202402201203 Self-organizing systems

The most marvelous characteristic of some complex systems is their ability to learn, diversify, complexify, and evolve.¹

Self-organizing systems are higher level 202402201202 Resilient systems. They have the ability to repair, modify, or produce their own feedback loops through complex interactions of loops acting on the loops themselves. This ability to modify their own structure is exactly what it means to be self-organizing.¹

Human bodies are remarkable examples of resilient, self-organizing systems.

Self-organizing systems can be so complex that they verge into the realm of chaos theory. In other cases, they can be more like a fractal, where a simple law produces infinite complexity. See The Computational Beauty of Nature.