artificial life
autopoeisis

Bernard system
butterfly effect

catastrophe theory
causality
cellular automaton
chaos
complex adaptive system
complex system
complexity
cybernetics

deterministic system
dissipative structure
dynamical system

emergence

feedback

Gaia hypothesis

holistic

instability

linear system
Lorenz, Edward Norton (1917–2008)

nonlinear system

phase transition
planets as living beings

self-organization
self-organized criticality
stochastic process
superorganism
system

transfer function

van der Pol, Balthazar (1889–1959)