Optimal Self-Organization

TL;DR

This paper proposes a universal principle of self-organization where driven systems with repulsive interactions tend to reach states of minimal dissipation and maximal success, applicable across physical, biological, social, and economic systems.

Contribution

It introduces a generalized principle of optimal self-organization based on thermodynamics and game theory, extending to diverse complex systems.

Findings

Driven systems tend to minimize interaction and dissipation.

The principle applies to physical, biological, social, and economic systems.

Systems reach states of maximal overall success.

Abstract

We present computational and analytical results indicating that systems of driven entities with repulsive interactions tend to reach an optimal state associated with minimal interaction and minimal dissipation. Using concepts from non-equilibrium thermodynamics and game theoretical ideas, we generalize this finding to an even wider class of self-organizing systems which have the ability to reach a state of maximal overall ``success''. This principle is expected to be relevant for driven systems in physics like sheared granular media, but it is also applicable to biological, social, and economic systems, for which only a limited number of quantitative principles are available yet.