scholarly journals Does Prigogine’s Non-linear Thermodynamics Support Popular Philosophical Discussions of Self-Organization?

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-52
Author(s):  
Alexander Pechenkin
Keyword(s):  
Self Organization ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Linear Thermodynamics

Subphthalocyanines: synthesis, self-organization, properties and applications

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (04n05) ◽  
pp. 446-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anaïs Medina ◽  
Christian G. Claessens
Keyword(s):  
Photodynamic Therapy ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Linear Optics ◽  
Anion Sensing ◽  
Non Linear Optics ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Donor Acceptor

Subphthalocyanines, lower homologs of phthalocyanines, show great promise for applications in many fields of contemporary research such as non-linear optics, donor-acceptor systems for photovoltaics, photodynamic therapy and anion sensing. This short review gives a brief overview of the latest developments in the chemistry, characterization, self-organization, properties and applications of this fascinating molecule.

Non-linear prediction model of river flow by self-organization method

1976 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
SABURO IKEDA ◽  
SATORU FUJISHIGE ◽  
YOSHIKAZU SAWARACl
Keyword(s):  
Prediction Model ◽  
River Flow ◽  
Linear Prediction ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Linear Prediction Model

scholarly journals Organizations in a Non-Linear, Unpredictable World

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Pirjo Ståhle ◽  
Leif Åberg
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Environmental Turbulence ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Tipping Points ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Organizational Perspective ◽  
New Information ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Insight Into

Globalisation, new information technology, universal networking, the non-linearity of things, and environmental turbulence are changing strategies of managing and succeeding. This paper examines non-linear phenomena and their practical consequences from an organizational perspective by using three concepts: Malcolm Gladwell’s tipping point, Ilya Prigogine’s self-organization, and Algirdas Greimas’s semiotic square. Tipping points occur at all system levels, determining for instance how fashion trends catch on, how health campaigns succeed, and how new ideas spread like wildfire. Self-organization refers to the kind of consciousness, action and intelligence that is manifested in the community’s rather than the individual’s actions, such as swarm intelligence in the animal world. Insight into the dynamics of change is supplemented by the semiotic square, which sheds light on how organizations can succeed. Organizations must have buffers, a surplus of resources to which they can resort whenever something unexpected happens, and they must be attuned to change and have access to tools that promote open, confidence-building communication.

scholarly journals Self-Organization Processes on the Sun: The Heliosynergetics

1990 ◽  
Vol 142 ◽  
pp. 125-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Krishan ◽  
E.I. Mogilevskij
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear System ◽  
Active Regions ◽  
Turbulent Medium ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Solar Granulation ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
Linear Interactions ◽  
Stable Structures

Abstract Non-linear interactions between small fluid elements, magnetized or otherwise, in an energetically open nonlinear system facilitate the formation of large coherent stable structures. This is knwon as self-organization. We interpret solar granulation on all scales and the formation and evolution of some structures in solar active regions to be the result of self-organization processes occuring in a turbulent medium.

scholarly journals Towards a dual ontology: duality, a case study

Sofia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
Francesco Maria Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Category Theory ◽  
Formal System ◽  
Basic Mechanism ◽  
Spontaneous Breaking ◽  
Theoretic Approach ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Linear Thermodynamics ◽  
Far From Equilibrium

The main aim of this work is to depict the interconnection of the most relvantformal concepts of modal logic and category theory, i.e., bisimulation andduality, arising from the mathematical analysis of physical processes and toshow their relevance with respect to some foundational issues related to the actual ontological debates. Current foundamental physics concerns the non-linear thermodynamics of the quantum eld, whose range is made of far from equilibrium systems and whose basic mechanism of symmetries (patterns) formation supposes the spontaneous breaking of symmetries (SBS). SBS implies that such systems reach unpredictable states. Thus, evolutive and/or far from equilibrium systems are to be conceived primarily as processes and just in a secondary way as objects, for the information they display is always incomplete with respect to their evolution. Formally, this is due to their non-linear mathematical behaviour.This make a question about the ontology of such systems, given thatthe actual most widespread ontologies conceive existent entities just as objects(actualist ontologies). It is claimed that the fundamental dierence and advantage of category theoretic approach to foundation is that, instead of considering objects and operations for what they 'are', as it is in set theory, in and through category theory we are considering them for what they 'do'. This, of course, would constitute a signicative shifting in mathematical philosophy and in foundationof mathematical physics: from a Platonic to an Aristotelian ontology ofmathematics (and, then, of physics). Actually, providing a contribution to thisvery shift is what this paper want to be focused on. In fact, the implicit pointthe present investigation is concerned with is how to treat the potential innite:the modalization of the existence of each object of the domain of quanticationmeans a potentially innite variation of the domain of quantication. The Aristotelian notion of potentiality diers with the usual one (employed by Platonism and/or formalism and/or conceptualism) inasmuch it does not presupposes any actuality. For instance, it is well known that the Platonic presupposition of set theory consists in the fact "that each potential innite, if it is rigorously applicable mathematically, presupposes an actual innite" [Hallett (1984, p. 25)]. In turn, the formalist notion of (absolute) completeness derives directly from that, if only for the actuality of the information a formal system was intended to dispaly.

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