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... nature . Thirdly , there is systems philosophy , i.e. the reorientation of thought and world view ensuing from the ... nature , " con- trasting the " blind laws of nature " of the mechanistic world view and the world process as a ...
... nature . Thirdly , there is systems philosophy , i.e. the reorientation of thought and world view ensuing from the ... nature , " con- trasting the " blind laws of nature " of the mechanistic world view and the world process as a ...
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... nature have appeared in all branches of science , irrespective of whether inanimate things , living organ- isms , or social phenomena are the object of study . This cor- respondence is the more striking because the developments in the ...
... nature have appeared in all branches of science , irrespective of whether inanimate things , living organ- isms , or social phenomena are the object of study . This cor- respondence is the more striking because the developments in the ...
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... nature follow the feedback scheme , and it is well - known that a new discipline , called Cybernetics , was introduced by Norbert Wiener to deal with these phenomena . The theory tries to show that mechanisms of a feedback nature are ...
... nature follow the feedback scheme , and it is well - known that a new discipline , called Cybernetics , was introduced by Norbert Wiener to deal with these phenomena . The theory tries to show that mechanisms of a feedback nature are ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 30 |
Information and Entropy | 41 |
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