complex system: self-organization

• Self-organization is a process where some form of global order or coordination arises out of the local interactions between the components of an initially disordered system. This process is spontaneous: it is not directed or controlled by any agent or subsystem inside or outside of the system;
• One example of self organization is the ant colony, which demonstrates a complex system that self-organizes without any outside force directing that organization.
• Any relationship in the natural world—bees pollinating flowers, predators and prey, food webs, eco-systems—has developed over time through the natural order of self-organization.