General System Theory¶
von Bertalanffy, L. (1968). General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications.
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7 citations across 7 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Environmental Coupling Strength
- It quantifies how tightly the system's internal state is entangled with external conditions, versus how self-determined and shielded the system is—a structural account von Bertalanffy (1968) develops in his foundational treatment of open systems exchanging matter, energy, and information with their environments.
This sourceFoundational statement of general systems theory; defines the living organism as an open system maintained by continuous inflow and outflow of matter, energy, and information. SUPPORTS marker 183 (open systems exchanging matter, energy, and information with their environments).
- It quantifies how tightly the system's internal state is entangled with external conditions, versus how self-determined and shielded the system is—a structural account von Bertalanffy (1968) develops in his foundational treatment of open systems exchanging matter, energy, and information with their environments.
- Feedback
This sourceGeneral systems theory across biological and social organisms; feedback regulation and homeostasis.
- Isomorphism
- … these recurrences constitute isomorphisms between the systems in a relevant sense — the same differential-equation structure governs predator-prey dynamics, harmonic oscillators, and certain economic-cycle models, and the isomorphism between the systems licences the transfer of analytical results across domains.
This source(Foundational statement of general systems theory with cross-domain isomorphism as its unifying concept; argues that similar feedback structures recur across biology, engineering, economics, and organisations and that these recurrences constitute structural isomorphisms in a relevant sense; the alternate-origin domain anchor for the isomorphism construct.)
- … these recurrences constitute isomorphisms between the systems in a relevant sense — the same differential-equation structure governs predator-prey dynamics, harmonic oscillators, and certain economic-cycle models, and the isomorphism between the systems licences the transfer of analytical results across domains.
- Multi Path Convergence
- Systems Thinking
- Its defining commitment is to shift the unit of analysis from element to relationship—and from linear cause→effect chains to loop, stock, and flow structure—an orientation first systematized in von Bertalanffy's general systems theory, which proposed that organized wholes across physics, biology, and the social sciences obey common organizational laws irreducible to their components.
This source(Foundational statement of general systems theory with cross-domain isomorphism as its unifying concept; argues that similar feedback structures recur across biology, engineering, economics, and organisations and that these recurrences constitute structural isomorphisms in a relevant sense; the alternate-origin domain anchor for the isomorphism construct.)
- Its defining commitment is to shift the unit of analysis from element to relationship—and from linear cause→effect chains to loop, stock, and flow structure—an orientation first systematized in von Bertalanffy's general systems theory, which proposed that organized wholes across physics, biology, and the social sciences obey common organizational laws irreducible to their components.
Domain-specific¶
- Dialectics
- But the underlying mechanisms are different.
This sourceFoundational statement of general systems theory, developing feedback, homeostasis, and open-system dynamics as the stability-seeking machinery of complex systems; substantiates the systems-thinking (feedback-loop/homeostasis) side of the dialectics-vs-systems-thinking contrast (208).
- But the underlying mechanisms are different.
Mechanisms¶
- Benchmark Deconstruction Grid
- Its central trap is equifinality
This sourceDefines equifinality as different initial conditions and pathways reaching the same final state.
- Its central trap is equifinality
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