Abstract
The theory of self-organization is beginning to penetrate into the entire spectrum of scientific disciplines. The initial ideas that led to self-organization theory can be traced back into the historical tradition of the social and natural sciences. The theory of self-organization in a narrower sense, however, is usually said to have begun with the works of Manfred Eigen, Heinz von Foerster, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Hermann Haken, Humberto Maturana and Ilja Prigogine.1 If one considers these works as the basis, two main conceptual points of reciprocal causal relationship may be distinguished: the emphasis on the purely theoretical, system-related aspect and the emphasis on the epistemological aspect of self-organization.
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