This is a good first place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization Forms can be quantified b

This is a good first place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization Forms can be quantified by the entropy with respect to its component parts -- generally, the more ordered, the less entropy. Constructing things broadly corresponds to reducing the entropy of the set of configurations of the components.