Ecological Self-Organization

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In this video we will be covering the topic of self-organization within biological systems. We talk about how the theory of self-organization helps us to approach one of the big questions within biology and ecology, that of organization or order. In particular how biological systems can evolve to exhibit greater structure and complexity over time by harnessing a dissipative process to enable the self-organization of their constituent elements into a functioning organism. We discuss the basic workings to this process of self-organization, as one that requires some initial state of entropy or randomness where small fluctuations can gain hold and become amplified through positive feedback into new patterns as they come to form stable basins of attraction that close in on themselves giving an emergent global pattern.

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