AUTHOR=Portugali Juval TITLE=Self-organized integration vs. self-organized disintegration: an unfinished study JOURNAL=Frontiers in Network Physiology VOLUME=Volume 5 - 2025 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/network-physiology/articles/10.3389/fnetp.2025.1662127 DOI=10.3389/fnetp.2025.1662127 ISSN=2674-0109 ABSTRACT=This paper refers to an issue Haken and myself were discussing, started to work on, prepared a preliminary draft, but never managed to complete and transform it into a full-scale study and publication. Here, in memoriam of Hermann Haken, my dear friend and colleague for many years, I present it as it is – an unfinished study with some innovative ideas that will have to be further elaborated in the future.