In order to be fully holistic, the regenerative framework aims at seeing beyond
systems and outside of the understanding how processes can promote optimum
conditions. In other words, designing integrated systems is not enough; it is also
necessary to envision the processes which
link systems and promote their co-evolution
over time. We call these systems emergent
structures.
The process of emergence by which the
local interactions between the parts of the
system give rise to a certain new improved
complex global structure;
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the process of temporary steady
state during which the system
maintains its structure by exchanging
matter and information with its
environment
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the process of bifurcation and
phase transition during which the old
steady state collapses
a new process of emergence starts
and generates a new steady state.
Systems with emergent properties or emergent structures may appear to defy entropic principles and the second law of thermodynamics, because they form and increase
order despite the lack of command and
central control. This is possible because
open systems can extract information and
order out of the environment.
The emergent property itself may be either
very predictable or unpredictable and unprecedented, and represent a new level of
the system’s evolution. The complex behaviour or properties are not a property of any
single such entity, nor can they easily be
predicted or deduced from behaviour in the
lower-level entities: they are irreducible.
Clearly biological eco-systems do not
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understanding not a clockwork-Newtonian
perception of reality.