The idea of a self-organizing system is that one implements a sufficiently sophisticated ruleset that creates dynamic behavior which tends towards an emergent, non-obvious order.
A self-organizing system always contains some kind of feedback mechanism that prevents divergence into chaos. --MarkJanssen
This page used to have valid content (check the BackLinks). Anyone care to fill it back in from history?
It seems to be a fairly recent page - I don't know of any historical version.
{Maybe the page history is self-deorganizing :-) }
Wiki related links on the topic:
"Self organizing maps?" - Perhaps FuzzyPredicate