Living SystemsOffering a detailed analysis of each of the major aspects and characteristics encountered at all seven levels, Living Systems identifies multiple variables of each of 9 matter-energy and information-processing subsystems, the normal and pathological states of these variables, and practical indicators for measuring changes in them. It also specifies cross-level formal identities among the levels and describes the artifacts, machines, or technologies at each level. |
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... Relationships between conceptual and other sorts of systems A conceptual system may be purely logical or mathematical , or its terms and relationships may be intended to have some sort of formal identity or isomorphism with units and ...
... Relationships between conceptual and other sorts of systems A conceptual system may be purely logical or mathematical , or its terms and relationships may be intended to have some sort of formal identity or isomorphism with units and ...
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... relationships abstracted or selected by an observer in the light of his interests , theoretical viewpoint , or philosophical bias . Some relationships may be empir- ically determinable by some operation carried out by the observer , but ...
... relationships abstracted or selected by an observer in the light of his interests , theoretical viewpoint , or philosophical bias . Some relationships may be empir- ically determinable by some operation carried out by the observer , but ...
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... Relationships among subsystems or components All descriptions of relationships in a concrete system are either statements about the structure of its organi- zation or about its function or history - reversible or irreversible process ...
... Relationships among subsystems or components All descriptions of relationships in a concrete system are either statements about the structure of its organi- zation or about its function or history - reversible or irreversible process ...
Contents
Tables of the Critical Subsystems | xi |
Preface to the First Edition | xxvii |
Outline of Chapters 3 4 and 6 through 12 | xxxviii |
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