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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Netw. Physiol.

Sec. Networks of Dynamical Systems

Volume 5 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fnetp.2025.1662127

This article is part of the Research TopicSelf-Organization of Complex Physiological Networks: Synergetic Principles and Applications — In Memory of Hermann HakenView all 11 articles

Self-organized integration vs. Self-organized disintegration: An unfinished study

Provisionally accepted
  • Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

This paper refers to an issue Haken and myself were discussing, started to work on, prepared a preliminary draft, but never managed to complete and transform it into a full-scale study and publication. Here, in memoriam of Hermann Haken, my dear friend and colleague for many years, I present it as it is – an unfinished study with some innovative ideas that will have to be further elaborated in the future.

Keywords: Network physiology, synergetics, Cities, Complexity, artifacts, Memory

Received: 08 Jul 2025; Accepted: 08 Oct 2025.

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* Correspondence: Juval Porrtugali, juval@tauex.tau.ac.il

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