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Reflections

135 atomic notes and insights on systems thinking, complexity, and the patterns that connect.

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Dec 21, 2025
GST was meant to be a research program, not an individual theory
Dec 21, 2025
a biology centered metaphysics lets us handle social systems without resorting to physicalist reductionism
Dec 21, 2025
a connection is a special type of relation that makes a difference
Dec 21, 2025
a general model of process can be described
Dec 21, 2025
a physics based TOE would add nothing to our understanding of life and human society
Dec 21, 2025
a postulate outlining general systems principles
Dec 21, 2025
a system's components must be listed before inquiring about its environment and structure
Dec 21, 2025
a system's degree of integration depends on connections or links among a systems components relative to disintegrating actions of the environment
Dec 21, 2025
a systems ontology of problems sees them as emerging from complex situations
Dec 21, 2025
a theory of global society that accounts for structural and functional views would be desirable
Dec 21, 2025
a thing is an aggregate iff its state space equals the union of the state spaces of its components, otherwise it's a system
Dec 21, 2025
aa encourages alcoholics to find the disease within themselves the way jungian analysts have patients find their type
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
academics share the common language of mathematics, which is too abstract to unify them
Dec 21, 2025
allowing purpose to determine what you consciously inspect does not lead to wisdom
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
an ESM should be developed first at the conceptual level
Dec 21, 2025
an ESM would be a resource for wisdom
Dec 21, 2025
an assemblage of connected black boxes has emergent properties, the resulting system can be represtned by listing transfer fucntions characterizing its compoennts
Dec 21, 2025
analytical kinematics looks at links among components of a system
Dec 21, 2025
biology links the microscopic and astronomic
Dec 21, 2025
black boxes are suitable models of system components, not systems
Dec 21, 2025
bunge's epistemological hierarchy
Dec 21, 2025
category theory may be fundamental for systems theories, competing with graph and set theory
Dec 21, 2025
choosing between coarse and fine grained models requires making tradeoffs between accuracy and parsimony
- systems
Dec 21, 2025
choosing between coarse and fine grained models requires making tradeoffs wbetween accuracy and parsimony
Dec 21, 2025
concrete and abstract systems can be viewed ontologically or epistemologically
Dec 21, 2025
constants in systems theories should be dimensionless
Dec 21, 2025
constructivist camps stress the relativity of models
Dec 21, 2025
cooperation and competition are not opposites, many things cooperate and compete with each other
Dec 21, 2025
cryptoeconomic-systems
- cryptoeconomics
Dec 21, 2025
cybernetic explanation is always negative - the course of events are subject to restraints
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
cybernetics recognizes "self" as part of a very large trial and error system
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
cybernetics studies the propositional, informational aspects of the natural world and requires different procedures
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
differences, not impulses, travel in axons
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
dreams elaborate on relationships but don't identify related things
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
dreams, art, and the best of religion provide remedy for the ills of conscious purpose
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
dynamical analogies - transport, diffusion, cooperation, competition- are found in various types of systems
Dec 21, 2025
dynamical models involve change mechanisms - subsystems or processes whose properties, when changed, effect changes in other properties of the same system
Dec 21, 2025
dynamical models of systems are ones representing one or more of its mechanisms
Dec 21, 2025
economic theory should highlight scale-dependence of the proper relation between polity and economy
Dec 21, 2025
emergent properties are ones that are new for a system at a time step
Dec 21, 2025
equating self with consciousness is a fallacy
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
esm should focus on life as intermdiate between domains of matter and mind
Dec 21, 2025
every system but the world is subject to random actions that will lead to its breakdown or mutation
Dec 21, 2025
existing links in modern social systems may be non-ideal in type, direction, and magnitude
Dec 21, 2025
explaining human behavior requires dealing with total completed circuits
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
explanatory principles represent agreements among scientists to stop trying to explain things
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
fields are not systems, but collections of fields superposed on regions of space are
Dec 21, 2025
focusing on emergence emphasizes the sharp question - what questions are necessary and sufficient for life or mind to occur?
Dec 21, 2025
general theory and general methodology are similar, both involving modeling and characterized by abstract achetypes
Dec 21, 2025
general theory and general methodology are similar, both involving modeling and characterized by abstract archetypes
- systems
Dec 21, 2025
grey box models are black boxes with conjectured internal states and no disclosed functional mechanism
Dec 21, 2025
grey box models involving internal state vectors are usually required for control systems
Dec 21, 2025
humanity needs to accomplish a completion-reinitiation event
Dec 21, 2025
humans can't practically separate ontology from epistemology
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
in social systems information descends while matter-energy ascends
Dec 21, 2025
incompleteness is the most general explanation for evil
Dec 21, 2025
information does not measure organization
Dec 21, 2025
information sources for an agent are restraints for the cybernetic observer
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
information systems can gain or lose final states in response to external stimuli
Dec 21, 2025
information theory is about organization vs. disorganization
Dec 21, 2025
information theory's central postulate relates the quantity of information of a signal to the unexpectedness of the message
Dec 21, 2025
it is often important to verbalize core systems insights before mathematical formalization
Dec 21, 2025
kinematical models of systems are theories representing changes in some of the system's properties
Dec 21, 2025
langrangian models are useful for continuous systems
Dec 21, 2025
language and tools lead to consciousness and objectivity
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
lineal models remain the norm in social science despite the fact that many social phenomena exhibit feedback
Dec 21, 2025
linear models remain the norm in social science despite the fact that many social phenomena exhibit feedback
- systems
Dec 21, 2025
mathematics need not be quantitative, only precise
Dec 21, 2025
meaning is possible because our world is neither totally random nor determined
Dec 21, 2025
mental characteristics of systems are immanent in the whole, but not in some parts
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
metaphysics provides semantics to bind science and math
Dec 21, 2025
modeling is the compression (representation) and organization (construction)of impressions
Dec 21, 2025
neuromorphic-systems
- neuromorphics
Dec 21, 2025
no theory specifies how conceptual items combine with concrete ones
Dec 21, 2025
noise, anything that is not information, redunadancy, form, or restraints, is the only possible source of new patterns
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
one valuable contribution of the systems movement is its offering of a systems theoretic language for discussing problems in general terms
Dec 21, 2025
physics must be displaced by biology as the science most relevant to our worldview
Dec 21, 2025
plastic, adaptive sytems stay stable within a changing environment. unstable systems suffer structural or functional breakdown
Dec 21, 2025
poetic imagination is the only reality, there is no real sepration between the self and experience
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
political economy
- political-economy
Dec 21, 2025
pythagoras advocated for inquiry into pattern over substance
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
search for a system's internal sources of change before blaming changes on its environment
Dec 21, 2025
self-organization is a special case of self-assembly
Dec 21, 2025
society could be redesigned to combine the good features of competition with those of cooperation, preventing scarcity and waste
Dec 21, 2025
society needs institutions dedicated to impartial scientific analysis of critical problems
Dec 21, 2025
synchronics and diachronics represent an attempt to integrate systems theory structurally, by organizing its content
Dec 21, 2025
synchronics considers various system types in order of increasing complexity
Dec 21, 2025
system
- systems
Dec 21, 2025
systemism
- systems
Dec 21, 2025
systems analysis usually doesn't deeply study divergence of actual from ideal
Dec 21, 2025
systems knowledge is about form and process in general, everything we relate to exemplifies a systems theme
Dec 21, 2025
systems theories cannot be empirically falsified, they apply or don't
Dec 21, 2025
systems theories must be judged by their utility in creating or augmenting scientific theories
Dec 21, 2025
systems theorists need simple models, analysts need realistic ones
Dec 21, 2025
systems theory is too abstract to offer solutions to concrete real-world problems
Dec 21, 2025
tenses are possible with language, not with communication by action
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
the ESM of the systems project doesn't make claims of completeness, consistency , or certainty. it only insists on ubiquitous and important discoverable patterns in the world.
Dec 21, 2025
the concept of state space can be clarified with concrete examples
Dec 21, 2025
the elementary unit of information is a difference which makes a difference
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
the goal of the systems theorist is to obtain a model of a phenomenon, while the goal of the systems analyst is to use a model to solve a problem.
- systems
Dec 21, 2025
the graph of the ancestry relation is a strict partial order
Dec 21, 2025
the greeks believed principles were real
Dec 21, 2025
the individual mind exists not only in the body, but also in pathways and messages outside of the body
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
the most general is fundamental for systems theory
Dec 21, 2025
the most valuable contributions of the systems project are in metaphysical clarifications of problems
Dec 21, 2025
the nature of meaning, information, etc. depends on our perspective
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
the notion of system is useful because it is general and can be made mathematically exact and linked to scientific theory
Dec 21, 2025
the philosophy of biology must correct the denial of progress and overemphasis on randomness distorting our understanding of evolution
Dec 21, 2025
the polity should regulate the economy
Dec 21, 2025
the postulate regarding a system's optimal size is empirically testable
Dec 21, 2025
the systems project is already the major interdisciplinary movement in the sciences
Dec 21, 2025
the triple sustainability concept is imperfect
Dec 21, 2025
the unit of survival for natural selection is a flexible organism in its environment
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
the universe is the supersystem of all other systems, and a system composed of subsystems
Dec 21, 2025
the various systems theories are not formally integrated
Dec 21, 2025
the way to theoretical knowledge is from hypothesized structure to behavior, not from behavior to inferred structure
Dec 21, 2025
the world can't continue operating in terms of the cartesian dualism of mind vs. matter
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
there are plenty of systems, like radio waves with no recognizable inputs and outputs. black box models must be supplemented by deeper more detailed models
Dec 21, 2025
there are some general phenomena for which no systems theories exist
Dec 21, 2025
there are universal structures and processes common to many different types of systems
Dec 21, 2025
thermodynamics addresses core systems metaphysics themes - order vs. disorder and system-environment interactions
Dec 21, 2025
understanding a system requires knowing its composition, environment, structure, history, and laws
Dec 21, 2025
unity of science requires an exact and scientific metaphysics
Dec 21, 2025
utility differs from the categories of matter, energy, information in having normative, not just descriptive applications
Dec 21, 2025
viewing the planet as an organism is limiting
Dec 21, 2025
we can identify four possible approaches to integrating systems theories according to a structural organizing principles
Dec 21, 2025
we can imagine a world in which systems theories were the dominant paradigm
Dec 21, 2025
we can view various systems theories as collectively defining systems science
Dec 21, 2025
we can't understanding the brain by modeling simple representations of very many neurons in the absence of robust theories of memory, cognition, emotion
Dec 21, 2025
we must see structure, function, and history to understand many phenomena
Dec 21, 2025
we should think of the world in terms of - matter, energy, information, utility along with structure, function and history
Dec 21, 2025
what information gets to consciousness is a systematic sampling of the rest
- systems
- steps-to-an-ecology-of-mind
Dec 21, 2025
while systems theory is biocentric, systems analysis is anthropocentric since humans are the only agents capable of perfecting
Dec 21, 2025
world-of-systems-bunge
- world-of-systems
- THEME_TAG
Dec 21, 2025
x and y are coordinated if they jointly contribute to the integrity of a system

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