THE GENESIS MODEL - PART II: FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS OF ELEMENTS IN SELFORGANIZED SYSTEMS
PETER WINIWARTER
Le Bordalier Institute, F-41270 Drone, France.
Received: 7 September 1982
Abstract
A quantitative measurement of the complexity C of a selforganized system implies the determination of the frequencies of the element types constituting the system. The analysis of empirical data concerning a large variety of selforganized systems - such as cosmic systems, biological systems, economic systems and linguistic systems - suggests a general law. The second law of genesis: The rank-ordered frequency distribution of element-types of any selforganized system at any level of hierarchical organization can be approximated by a mathematical distribution of the form p n = A (n + m)**B