scholarly journals Goal Directedness, Chemical Organizations, and Cybernetic Mechanisms

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 1039
Author(s):  
Evo Busseniers ◽  
Tomas Veloz ◽  
Francis Heylighen
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Reactions ◽  
Negative Feedback ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Reaction Networks ◽  
Reference Levels ◽  
The Origin Of Life ◽  
Goal Directedness ◽  
Theoretical Results

In this article, we attempt at developing a scenario for the self-organization of goal-directed systems out of networks of (chemical) reactions. Related scenarios have been proposed to explain the origin of life starting from autocatalytic sets, but these sets tend to be too unstable and dependent on their environment to maintain. We apply instead a framework called Chemical Organization Theory (COT), which shows mathematically under which conditions reaction networks are able to form self-maintaining, autopoietic organizations. We introduce the concepts of perturbation, action, and goal based on an operationalization of the notion of change developed within COT. Next, we incorporate the latter with notions native to the theory of cybernetics aimed to explain goal directedness: reference levels and negative feedback among others. To test and refine these theoretical results, we present some examples that illustrate our approach. We finally discuss how this could result in a realistic, step-by-step scenario for the evolution of goal directedness, thus providing a theoretical solution to the age-old question of the origins of purpose.

Mutual Guarantee Systems of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in China

2012 ◽  
pp. 230-238
Author(s):  
Yi Yang ◽  
Hong-yan Yan ◽  
Ze-yun Yang
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Operation Efficiency ◽  
Far From Equilibrium ◽  
High Level ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Industry Associations

Mutual guarantee systems (MGS) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are complex system mainly serving the SMEs, including the mutual guarantee institutions formed by SMEs, financial institutions, industry associations and credit re-guarantee institutions. From the perspective of system theory, this paper illuminates the self-organization mechanisms and the self-organization characteristics of openness, far-from-equilibrium, nonlinearity and fluctuation of mutual guarantee systems of SMEs. The implication of self-organization theory is that under some conditions, mutual guarantee systems have the internal tendencies of autopoietic, self-evolution and evolution from disorder to order and from low level to high level to solve SMEs’ financing problems. Using self-organization theory, this paper proposes suggestions and measures to improve the operation efficiency of mutual guarantee systems in China.

Mutual Guarantee Systems of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in China

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yi Yang ◽  
Hong-yan Yan ◽  
Ze-yun Yang
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Operation Efficiency ◽  
Far From Equilibrium ◽  
High Level ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Industry Associations

Mutual guarantee systems (MGS) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) ares complex system mainly serving the SMEs, including the mutual guarantee institutions formed by SMEs, financial institutions, industry associations and credit re-guarantee institutions. From the perspective of system theory, this paper illuminates the self-organization mechanisms and the self-organization characteristics of openness, far-from-equilibrium, nonlinearity and fluctuation of mutual guarantee systems of SMEs. The implication of self-organization theory is that under some conditions, mutual guarantee systems have the internal tendencies of autopoietic, self-evolution and evolution from disorder to order and from low level to high level to solve SMEs’ financing problems. Using self-organization theory, this paper proposes suggestions and measures to improve the operation efficiency of mutual guarantee systems in China.

Research on Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Structure and Growth Processes Using Nonlinear Dynamics Methods

2006 ◽  
Vol 910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolay Viktorovich Bodyagin ◽  
Sergey Pavlovich Vikhrov ◽  
Tatiana Gennadievna Larina ◽  
Stanislav Mursalovich Mursalov
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Thin Films ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Growth Control ◽  
Film Structure ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Silicon Thin Film ◽  
Material Growth

AbstractThere proved a possibility of applying the self-organization theory to the growth of noncrystalline thin-films and to the detection of ordering in their structure. Methods of analyzing the dynamics of complex systems are modified so as to investigate the structure of noncrystalline thin films. There offered new principles of the construction of material growth control systems.

scholarly journals A critical analysis of human improvement projects from the perspective of the self-organization theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Mariana C. Broens
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Status Quo Bias ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Evolutionary Processes ◽  
The Status

Based on the theory of self-organization, the objective of this paper is tocritically discuss the theses defended by the postulators of two projects that aim toimprove human nature: eugenics and transhumanism. We will try to show that the“science of eugenics”, proposed by Francis Galton (1883), and the contemporarytranshumanist project, outlined since the second half of the 20th century, share thecontroversial belief that human beings, through science and technology, are able tosuccessfully control the evolutionary processes of human species. We will try to showthat this belief disregards the central characteristics of the complex self-organizedadaptive evolutionary processes of organisms in general. For this purpose, we willcritically analyse the central theses of the transhumanist project and the “status quo bias”argument proposed by Bolton and Ord (2006) in defence of such theses. We conclude byemphasizing that the proponents of the contemporary transhumanist project would benefitfrom a fallibilistic perspective that would allow them to face the project's social andethical possible implications with epistemic prudence.

scholarly journals Goals as Emergent Autopoietic Processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Veloz
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Reaction Network ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Reaction Networks ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Emergence Of Life

While the phenomena of reaching a goal is generally represented in the framework of optimization, the phenomena of becoming of a goal is more similar to a “self-organization and emergent” rather than an “optimization and preexisting” process. In this article we provide a modeling framework for the former alternative by representing goals as emergent autopoietic structures. In order to conceptually situate our approach, we first review some of the most remarkable attempts to formally define emergence, and identify that in most cases such definitions rely on a preexisting system to be observed prior and post emergence, being thus inadequate for a formalization of emergent goals corresponding to the becoming of a systems as such (e.g. emergence of life). Next, we review how an implementation of the reaction networks framework, known as Chemical Organization Theory (COT), can be applied to formalize autopoietic structures, providing a basis to operationalize goals as an emergent process. We next revisit the definitions of emergence under the light of our approach, and demonstrate that recent taxonomies developed to classify different forms of emergence can be naturally deduced from recent work aimed to explain the kinds of changes of the organizational structure of a reaction network.

The Development of Countermeasure Research of New Energy Industry Based on Self-Organization Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 1073-1076 ◽  
pp. 2519-2522
Author(s):  
Jin Ying Li ◽  
Mei Qing Zhang ◽  
Chun Lian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Mechanism Analysis ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Countermeasure Research ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Development Countermeasures ◽  
The Government

In view of the present situation of new energy resources in China, the thesis thinks that new energy industry has great development potential. And new energy industry has the self-organizing characteristics, this paper analyzes the new energy industry since the organization structure, environment and evolution mechanism of the system and the self-organization ability and the effect of policy intervention mechanism analysis, through the analysis of new energy industry since the organization system, in view of the government and the new energy industry itself put forward different development countermeasures respectively, hope to be able to promote the sustainable development of the new energy industry in our country.

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