"In that sense, a self-organizing system is intrinsically adaptive: it maintains its basic organization in spite of continuing changes in its environment. As noted, perturbations may even make the system more robust, by helping it to discover a more stable organization."
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Francis Heylighen, “Complexity and Self-Organization” (2008), Center "Leo Apostel", Free University of Brussels, Belgium, p. 10. Also, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (2008) pp. 1215-1224.
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