Systems Inquiry Primer Project
CREATING A BASIC TUTORIAL ON SYSTEMS AND CYBERNETICS.
By Charles Francois
In various forms, such a tutorial has been developed along the last fifteen years by our Argentine Association.
Presently, the tutorial includes two succesive modules.
- Physical, physiogical, psychological, and cultural limits to perception and conceptualization
2. The System
- General characteristics of sub-systems
- Environment, input and output, sources and sinks
- [wiki: Processes]], inter and intrasystemic flows, Interconnections, functions
- Fluctuations and instabiliities
- Emergence through dissipative structuration
- Positive, negative and compensating feedbacks
- Regulation, control, and hierarchy
- Information, signs, signals, significations, data, codes, languages, messages
- Communication, Transmission and quantification of information
B. A second level Tutorial
1. Metaphors, analogies, Isomorphies
- Their transdisciplinary uses.
- Miller's taxonomy of living systems, levels of organization
3. The various kinds of systems
- Their ways of processing energy, matter and information
Neural nets and complex systems genesis
4. From autopoiesis to autogenesis and vice-versa
- controls, natural and artificial
cybenetics of the complex control
5. Complex cyclical behavior in systems
- Deterministic chaos, limits to determinism in prospective and planning
- multi-level cyclical forecasting and planning
6. Cybernetics of second order
- The observer according to von Foerster, Maturana, and Jumarie
- wiki Korzybski's Structural differential
SYSTEMIC THEORY Definition PART (B) Particular definition: Systems, from the four directions of Philosophy, Theory, Methodology and Application, in dynamic, multiple-causal interactive relationship, acting as a family, having members in a meaningful relationship acting as wholes and possessing organization as a process with aspects determined by boundaries set by the observer according to subjective and objective considerations that might be static or dynamic, with qualities or quantities that are simplicity compared relatively to complexity resulting in closed or open systems having form and function which can have emergent effects creating an evolution or devolution depending on internal or external relationships utilizing diffentiation and integration to form order out of chaoic behavior all at once over a period of time i.e., “autopoiesis” (self generation)
Dooyeweerd (p149)
Numeric
Spacial
Kinemaatic
Physical
Biotic
Sensitive
Logical
Informatory
Social
Economic
Aesthetic
Jurddicial
Etihical
Credal
Boulding (p148)
Frameworks
Clockworks
Thermostat
Cell
Plant
Animal
Human
Social Organization
Ontology (systemic)
Epistemology
TYPES OF SYSTEMS
Definition
Human activity systems
Artificial systems
Physical systems
Cybernetic systems
Second Order Cybernetic Systems
Intelligent Systems
Personality Systems
Emancipitory systems
Whole systems
Synegy systems
Process systems
Literature systems
Mathematical systems
Social systems
Semantical systems
Modeling systems
Management systems
Organizational systems
Information systems (Simms p305)
Spiritual systems.
Beautiful systems
Protracted systems
Educational systems
Deterministic systems
Indeterministic systems
System Theories
Critical systems theory,
Liberating systems theory,
Organismic theory,
Activity Theory (p293?)
Relationship Theory
Living systems theory,
Soft Systems Theory,
Dynamic Systems Theory,
A general theory of dynamic systems,
Complexity Theory
Complexity levels: (fm Francois)
Miller's taxonomy of living systems; levels of organization;
Critical Subsystems; Translevel Hypothesis.
The various kinds of systems:
Their ways of processing energy, matter and information.
Neural nets and complex systems genesis.
From autopoiesis to autogenesis and vice-versa.
The limits of autonomy; controls, natural and artificial; cybenetics of the complex control.
Complex cyclical behavior in systems:
Deterministic chaos; limits to determinism in prospective and planning; multi-level cyclivcal forecasting and planning.
Cybernetics of second order:
The observer according to von Foerster, Maturana, and Jumarie;
Korzybski's Structural differential
Creation of information: Information treatment; formalized languages.
SYSTEMIC TOOLS
Definition
Metaphors,
Analogies,
Isomorphies:
Graphs
Matrixes, etc.
Modeling
Simulation
Their transdisciplinary uses.
Cybermetics
Cybernetics 1
Positive, negative and compensating feedbacks
Regulation, control and hierarchy
Variety and constraints
Law of requiste variety
Cybernetics 11
Information: signs, signals, significations, data, codes, languages, messages
Communication: Transmission and quantification of information.
Channels, Noise, Redundancy
Chaos theory
Catstrophe theory
Dissipative structures
Process Logic (p103)
