Common Multilevel Patterns of Self-Organization in Living Systems

• Position Paper. Self-organization in living systems: A common multilevel pattern. By Nikhil Joshi, Ph.D. Lifel Working Paper No: 2014-01-01,

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Abstract

"I outline an important common pattern in the evolutionary emergence of multilevel natural self-organization comprised of living systems. At each new level in natural self-organization in living systems, there is generation of diversity through entities composed of stable-state cycles and shared stable-state cycles (composite entities). Cumulative learning through the continuous evolutionary sequence comprised of entities and composite entities leads to the emergence of a new natural language and the next higher-level energy cycle.

The common pattern is revealed through observations across ascending levels of natural organization: molecular, cellular, neuronal and social. A formulation for potential energy in ecological, neuronal and social systems is proposed and used to suggest energy cycles in neuronal and social organization. Some broad implications of the common pattern are discussed."