self-organization

"Complex systems theory" deals with the relationship between system components, collective behaviors in it and the quality of its interaction with the environment and expresses irregular, nonlinear, unpredictable, and complex behaviors in systems and assumes a finite order pattern in all of these irregularities; That is, the existence of drastic changes, irregular behaviors, unpredictable changes, critical movements, etc., which, Although they are chaotic, they have a regular pattern in the long-term and with repetition. In the study, by criticizing Khosrow and Shirin's narrative based on the theory of complex systems by qualitative analysis, the unpredictability of its events is analyzed and with emphasis on the interactions between the components of the story, their identity and the system as a whole and its chaos is determined. The richness and variety of actions and interactions Among the many independent variables, self-organization, adaptability to maintain their survival and interests, and impact on the environment, are key elements of this system that make it possible to apply this theory in its analysis. Khosrow and Shirin narrates the love and union of Khosrow and Shirin, but the murder of one, and the suicide of the other, make it romantic and poetic. From a systemic point of view, Khosrow's chaotic behavior in his marriage to Maryam and Shekar and Farhad and Shirin's suicide can be considered as systems with unpredictable and irregular behaviors that the function of each is an attempt to create the desired situation and, in a systemic sense, balance with the environment.
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The ‘Complex Systems Theory’ is a new and holistic approach to analyzing systems, which in contrast to the partial-reductionist perspectives, begins by analyzing the structure of a system as a whole and proceeds to the functions of its components. Within the framework of this theory, we are concerned with characteristics such as non-linear behaviors, system’s chaotic and dynamic states, feedback process, synergistic composition, final stable balance in a cybernetic (self-control) state, etc. The existence of various actors and actionable agents, addition of the new and needed components for stabilizing chaos, non-linear interactions of the independent elements with each other and with the environment, and the effects of marginal elements on the anecdote of Sheikh San’an make it possible to analyze it within the framework of the complex systems theory. In the current study, we made an effort to critique this anecdote qualitatively. By assessing the unrevealed potentials of this anecdote, we tried to show that besides having a complex social system, it behaved in a non-linear and unpredictable way and that its intricacies were reduced by meticulously investigating its elements and their disorganized and complicated interactions, to achieve a thorough comprehension of the text. By the use of this approach, we could investigate the functions of Sheik San’an, his followers, and the Christian girl in relation to the other subsystems, such as sleep, fate, and death, and holistically illustrate the dynamic evolution of its components. The system evolved in the self-controlled states of Sheikh San’an and the Christian girl as two major subsystems through the feedback process, thus dealing with a self-organizing system. This study could contribute to the illumination of the unseen potentials of texts that could be re-read in this way.