Emergent growth of system self‐organization and self‐control: Contextual system design, steering, and transformation

Jessie Lydia Henshaw

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 2023, vol. 40, issue 5, 798-807

Abstract: In physics, subjects not explained by formulas were often avoided, like how uncontrolled systems change form. Weather, businesses, societies, environments, communities, cultures, groups, relationships, lives, and livelihoods all change form by variations of “S” curve progressions. It is a slow‐fast‐slow process of self‐animated contextual energy‐system emergence of working designs. They also appear to develop by “find and connect” in three stages, starting small to first (a) grow designs of increasing power, then (b) diversify, adapt, respond, to harmonize internally and with others, and then (c) take on one or more roles in their climax environments. It starts as a long life‐curve of increasing syntropic success that later ends with a continuity of entropic decline. Life is particularly risky for small startups, but many do succeed. Many powerful civilizations have emerged, some never growing up but growing as endless startups, only to become fragile, fail, and vanish. Here, we explore these systems with the premise that dynamic self‐organization and adaptation are also inherently processes of self‐direction.

Date: 2023
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