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To: Solon who wrote (28902)	7/24/2012 3:48:30 AM
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Self-organization is a far more ubiquitous phenomenon than something at just the molecular level. Here are some examples: An economy is a self-organizing system. The demand for goods and services, as also the demand for labour, constantly organizes the economy in a spontaneous way, without any central controlling authority. How true , this Dr. Vinod Kumar Wadhawan is a nuclear physicist & captures with so much more clarity all that's intuited by the data we have from cosmological evolution , chemical evolution in rising complexity, self organization leading to biological evolution of complex systems . Just phenomenal insights in his series of essays on complexity : COMPLEXITY EXPLAINED: 14. Biological Complexity at the Edge of Chaos Living entities have evolved to possess enormous amounts of order and complexity. Can Darwinian natural selection alone explain this order? Probably not. We must also take note of the inherent tendency of all complex adaptive systems to move towards self-organized states of optimum order. Biological and other kinds of complexity thrive best at the ‘edge of chaos,’ and this is where evolutionary forces usually operate. The dynamics of complexity around the edge of chaos is ideally suited for evolution that does not destroy self-organization. It is often not realized by Darwinists and neo-Darwinists that natural selection alone cannot lead to such high levels of order and complexity as seen in living organisms. A high degree of order already exits in complex adaptive systems because of their self-organization and perpetual-novelty tendencies. Natural selection only hones this order to still higher levels of complexity. The self-organization feature of complex adaptive systems may worry the Creationists some more. They have been busy attacking Darwin and his followers for the ‘blasphemies,’ and have been trying to argue that the fascinating degree of order observed in living creatures cannot possibly be the result of a series of ‘accidents’ in the form of mutations etc. The fact is that, as emphasized by Stuart Kauffman and others, Darwin or no Darwin, complex adaptive systems have the fundamental property that they self-organize into states of high (and ever-increasing) degree of order, so long as they are able to exchange matter and energy with the surroundings. Darwinian natural selection does lead to some increase of complexity and order but, by and large, it only hones the already available order and complexity to help a population adapt itself to the prevailing conditions. more cont'd. evol meme