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Fig. 6.7 Construction on a
community of ants
Fig. 6.8 Self-organization
of the process of food
delivery in the anthill
dying out or were becoming the primary source of new lines of development,
fostering procreation. Apparently this division of labor in the ant community can
be considered as the emergence of structure in the process of self-organization of
the system. It should be noted that the characteristics of self-organization in the ant
community fully apply to other collective insects such as bees, termites, etc.
Thus, self-organization is a phenomenon of an interdisciplinary nature belonging
to the field of knowledge commonly known as cybernetics, or more narrowly
synergetics. Therefore, any particular self-organization process is based on certain
dualism. On the one hand, self-organization of the system is realized by specific
physical, chemical, or some other mechanisms. On the other hand, to ensure that the
system is self-organizing, it is necessary to fulfill cybernetic conditions common to
all self-organizing systems—the general principles of self-organization. Let us
consider these principles in more detail.
1. Self-organization processes occur in distributed dynamic systems. A distrib-
uted system should be a collection of a large number of individual components,
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