From Collective Beings to Quasi-Systems / Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa.
2018
Q295
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Title
From Collective Beings to Quasi-Systems / Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa.
Author
Minati, Gianfranco, author.
ISBN
9781493975815
1493975811
9781493975792
149397579X
1493975811
9781493975792
149397579X
Published
New York, NY : Springer, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 386 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-1-4939-7581-5 doi
Call Number
Q295
Dewey Decimal Classification
003
Summary
This book outlines a possible future theoretical perspective for systemics, its conceptual morphology and landscape while the Good-Old-Fashioned-Systemics (GOFS) era is still under way. The change from GOFS to future systemics can be represented, as shown in the book title, by the conceptual change from Collective Beings to Quasi-systems. With the current advancements, problems and approaches occurring in contemporary science, systemics are moving beyond the traditional frameworks used in the past. From Collective Beings to Coherent Quasi-Systems outlines a conceptual morphology and landscape for a new theoretical perspective for systemics introducing the concept of Quasi-systems. Advances in domains such as theoretical physics, philosophy of science, cell biology, neuroscience, experimental economics, network science and many others offer new concepts and technical tools to support the creation of a fully transdisciplinary General Theory of Change. This circumstance requires a deep reformulation of systemics, without forgetting the achievements of established conventions. The book is divided into two parts. Part I, examines classic systemic issues from new theoretical perspectives and approaches. A new general unified framework is introduced to help deal with topics such as dynamic structural coherence and Quasi-systems. This new theoretical framework is compared and contrasted with the traditional approaches. Part II focuses on the process of translation into social culture of the theoretical principles, models and approaches introduced in Part I. This translation is urgent in post-industrial societies where emergent processes and problems are still dealt with by using the classical or non-systemic knowledge of the industrial phase.
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Pessa, Eliano, author.
Series
Contemporary systems thinking, 1568-2846
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Background of Good-Old-Fashioned-Systemics
Part. I
Chapter 2. Perspective new conceptual categories
Chapter 3. Dynamics
Chapter 4. From collective beings to quasi-systems
Chapter 5. New formalisation?
Chapter 6. Theoretical systemics and quantum field theory
Chapter 7. Towards a new systemics
Chapter 8. Network science as new systemics
Part II
Chapter 9. Translation into social culture
Chapter 10. Cases
Appendix 1
Appendix 2.
Part. I
Chapter 2. Perspective new conceptual categories
Chapter 3. Dynamics
Chapter 4. From collective beings to quasi-systems
Chapter 5. New formalisation?
Chapter 6. Theoretical systemics and quantum field theory
Chapter 7. Towards a new systemics
Chapter 8. Network science as new systemics
Part II
Chapter 9. Translation into social culture
Chapter 10. Cases
Appendix 1
Appendix 2.