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name: thinker-erich-jantsch
description: Apply the Erich Jantsch: Self-Organization Across Scales article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
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# Erich Jantsch: Self-Organization Across Scales

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/thinker-erich-jantsch). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/thinker-erich-jantsch.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/thinker-erich-jantsch/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

What Jantsch saw Erich Jantsch viewed the universe as a single process of self-organization. Systems at every scale maintain themselves through energy and matter flows far from equilibrium. These flows produce increasing complexity. The pro

## Representations

- Human: /a/thinker-erich-jantsch
- JSON: /api/articles/thinker-erich-jantsch
- Relationships: /api/articles/thinker-erich-jantsch/topology
- History: /api/articles/thinker-erich-jantsch/revisions