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Self-organisation -- the underlying principle and a general model
Raphael Blumenfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01877 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01877

Self-organisation -- the underlying principle and a general model
Recent observations of coordinated self-organisation (SO) of stress and structure in granular systems provide insight into the fundamental principle underlying this phenomenon. It is first argued here that SO emerges when a minute subset of configurations are significantly more stable than the rest and therefore survive the noise in the system much longer to be observed. This principle goes deeper than recently proposed energy considerations. Guided by this principle, a statistical mechanics mo…

Solving Inverse Problems in Stochastic Self-Organising Systems through Invariant Representations
Elias Najarro, Nicolas Bessone, Sebastian Risi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11796

Solving Inverse Problems in Stochastic Self-Organising Systems through Invariant Representations
Self-organising systems demonstrate how simple local rules can generate complex stochastic patterns. Many natural systems rely on such dynamics, making self-organisation central to understanding natural complexity. A fundamental challenge in modelling such systems is solving the inverse problem: finding the unknown causal parameters from macroscopic observations. This task becomes particularly difficult when observations have a strong stochastic component, yielding diverse yet equivalent patter…

Emergence: from physics to biology, sociology, and computer science
Ross H. McKenzie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08548 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08548

Emergence: from physics to biology, sociology, and computer science
Many systems involve numerous interacting parts and the whole system can have properties that the individual parts do not. I take this novelty as the defining characteristic of an emergent property. Other characteristics associated with emergence discussed include universality, order, complexity, unpredictability, irreducibility, diversity, self-organisation, discontinuities, and singularities. Emergent phenomena are widespread across physics, biology, social sciences, and computing, and are …

Resilience and adaptability in self-evidencing systems
Mahault Albarracin, Dalton A R Sakthivadivel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06897 https://

Resilience and adaptability in self-evidencing systems
In this paper we will articulate a view of resilience under the free energy principle and vice versa. The free energy principle is about existence and identity, and resilience is the condition under which things exist at all. In previous work this has been investigated as modelling resilience using the free energy principle. We will extend that work by making the case that self-organisation under the free energy principle is about resilience, in the sense that identity is a constant process of …