Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization | 7,483 followers on LinkedIn. Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization | What we want No matter how well we understand how a single droplet of water is formed in the laboratory, we cannot predict how countless droplets form clouds that substantially affect the Earth’s climate. And although we can accurately characterize a single neuron’s impulse, we do not yet understand how billions of them form a single thought. In such systems, animate or inanimate, processes of self-organization are at work: Many interacting parts organize themselves independently, without external control, into a complex whole.