...Evelyn Fox Keller Part Two of this essay focuses on what might be called the third and most recent chapter in the history of self-organization , in which the term has been claimed to denote a paradigm shift or revolution in scientific thinking about complex systems. The developments responsible...

...Evelyn Fox Keller Over the last quarter century, the term "self-organization" has acquired a currency that, notwithstanding its long history, has been taken to signal a paradigm shift, and perhaps even a scientific revolution, introducing a new Weltanschauungin fields as diverse as mathematics...