ORDER (Local) 2)
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The existence in some region of a system of more strongly interacting elements.
Local order corresponds partly to the concept of frozen components, or "functionally isolated islands of elements" (St. KAUFFMAN, 1993, p.205). It implies a polar relation between global stability and instability and also a trade-off between coherence and adaptability. Too many frozen components tend to reduce adaptability.
Local order results of the superposition of some more specific order within a reduced region, upon a more general order.
WEIERSTRASS' renormalization or MANDELBROT's fractalization produce local order, which seems to be generally similar to the higher order.
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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