15.2 Factors Needed for Ordering to Occur
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one system through cyclic processes, entropy must be transferred to another. Most
commonly, this entropy is transferred by heating the environment.
15.2 Factors Needed for Ordering to Occur
A description of the natural laws and emergent principles that lead to ordering and
self-organization of an open system we will call ‘Ordering Theory’.
The important factors and relations can be displayed as in Fig. 15.1. Two
examples are shown in Figs. 15.2 and 15.3. Clearly, several conditions are necessary
and sufficient for ordering to occur in an open subsystem of a larger system:
1. Energy Flow: Energy must be flowing through the subsystem;
2. Variability: Many complexions with quasi-stable configurations must be dynamically possible;
3. Rules and Specificity: A subset of the varieties must have selectable character
based on rules stored and perhaps even previously created within the subsystem.
Fig. 15.1 The elements of ordering in an open system
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one system through cyclic processes, entropy must be transferred to another. Most
commonly, this entropy is transferred by heating the environment.
15.2 Factors Needed for Ordering to Occur
A description of the natural laws and emergent principles that lead to ordering and
self-organization of an open system we will call ‘Ordering Theory’.
The important factors and relations can be displayed as in Fig. 15.1. Two
examples are shown in Figs. 15.2 and 15.3. Clearly, several conditions are necessary
and sufficient for ordering to occur in an open subsystem of a larger system:
1. Energy Flow: Energy must be flowing through the subsystem;
2. Variability: Many complexions with quasi-stable configurations must be dynamically possible;
3. Rules and Specificity: A subset of the varieties must have selectable character
based on rules stored and perhaps even previously created within the subsystem.
Fig. 15.1 The elements of ordering in an open system