Organic Computing is an emerging computing paradigm which attempts to take lessons from nature (on a much grander scale than genetic algorithms). To quote one of its founders, Dr. Rolf P. Würtz, Organic Computing will "form the basis for understanding the organic structure of Life on its molecular, organismic, cognitive and societal levels, and for building an organically structured information technology."
Organic (model), forms, methods and patterns found in living systems, often used as a metaphor for non-living things.
Organic disease, involving or affecting physiology or bodily organs.
Organic (military), a military unit predominantly of one type (armour, infantry, artillery, etc.) may incorporate subunits of a different type, to improve combined arms capability e.g.
Biologically-inspired computing (also bio-inspired computing) is a field of study that loosely knits together subfields related to the topics of connectionism, social behaviour and emergence.
Bio-inspired computing and AI One way in which bio-inspired computing differs from artificial intelligence (AI) is in how it takes a more evolutionary approach to learning, as opposed to the what could be described as 'creationist' methods used in traditional AI.
Bio-inspired computing, on the other hand, takes a more bottom-up, decentralised approach; bio-inspired techniques often involve the method of specifying a set of simple rules, a set of simple organisms which adhere to those rules, and a method of iteratively applying those rules.
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