Hermann Haken (1977), Synergetics: An Introduction, Springer, Berlin — DOI-10.1007/978-3-642-96363-6
Key takeaways
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- Near a point of instability, the modes that become unstable change slowly, and the stable modes follow them. A few order parameters then describe the whole system.
- The order parameters both arise from the parts and constrain them, which Haken calls circular causality.
- Self-organization in very different systems is treated as a nonequilibrium phase transition with the same mathematics.
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-11, and not attached to a claim. Its possible use is a
picture of a thesis as the order parameter of an argument. A thesis arises
from the claims and then decides which claims the work includes, which is
what works membership records (CLAIM-178). An unannounced change of
thesis would then be a change of order parameter. The record already
holds work built on this book: Kelso’s Dynamic Patterns (LIT-578) and the
Haken–Kelso–Bunz model (LIT-588, LIT-601). A reading
should check whether the slaving principle needs a separation of time
scales that an argument does not have.