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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... suprasystem only if it has an internal purpose or external goal which is consistent with the norm estab- lished by the suprasystem . Since this is not always true , it is important to distinguish the two notions of the actual and the ...
... suprasystem only if it has an internal purpose or external goal which is consistent with the norm estab- lished by the suprasystem . Since this is not always true , it is important to distinguish the two notions of the actual and the ...
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... suprasystem . This is not because a system's relations to its subsystems are more important than its relations to its suprasystem - they are equally important . However , if Chaps . 6 through 12 ( each of which , in order of increasing ...
... suprasystem . This is not because a system's relations to its subsystems are more important than its relations to its suprasystem - they are equally important . However , if Chaps . 6 through 12 ( each of which , in order of increasing ...
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... suprasystem . A trial court is an organization including judge , jury , bailiff , other court officers , lawyers , witnesses , and others , since it has two echelons — the judge being able to overrule the jury , and the jury at times ...
... suprasystem . A trial court is an organization including judge , jury , bailiff , other court officers , lawyers , witnesses , and others , since it has two echelons — the judge being able to overrule the jury , and the jury at times ...
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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