Definition of "self-organization" []

• A process of attraction and repulsion in which the internal organization of a system, normally an open system, increases in complexity without being guided or managed by an outside source. (noun)

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• "In fact, the rise of organic self-organization--the powerful force behind social media and its massive communities like Facebook, LinkedIn, QQ and Twitter--has already changed the marketplace and is an emerging threat to all industrial-age institutions, be they governmental, commercial, political, social, or religious."
• "They have shown a remarkable degree of self-organization using the new technologies."
• "Liquid state is the only one that allows self-organization processes, and the only state that allows for life, as we know it."