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Stuart A. Kauffman:
" The past three
centuries of science have been predominantly reductionist, attempting to break
complex systems into simple parts, and those parts, in turn, into simpler parts.
The reductionist program has been spectacularly successful, and will continue to
be so. But it has often left a vacuum: How do we use the information gleaned
about the parts to build up a theory of the whole? The deep difficulty here lies
in the fact that the complex whole may exhibit properties that are not readily
explained by understanding the parts. The complex whole, in a completely
nonmystical sense, can often exhibit collective properties, "emergent" features
that are lawful in their own right.
"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Kauffman
Robert Rosen:
A system is complex if it has non
computable models. A system
is complex if it has models which are themselves complex.
Productive people are healthy, ethical people - healthy in terms of their
lifestyle, and the way they manage stress; in terms of their values, their
ethics and their character.
The most
productive people: http://www.well.com/user/bbear/rosen.html#most
"We are learning a lot about people as workers. The most development; in terms of their capacity for growth across their lifespan and how well they learn, how quickly they rebound, and whether or not they are willing to take responsibility for their behavior. Are they accountable, can they work together with other people? What kinds of relationships do they form? Are they people-sensitive and people-skilled? Can they make commitments to other people? How do they define success?"
In a
simple system goal/goals are very narrow but in a complex system goals are
very wide.
Life is not as complex as you
think, it is as complex as you do not think
Natural systems are very narrowly
goal-directed and specialized (Turchin)
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1. Holeness and The Implicate Order
David Bohm
Ark edition
A Paradigm for Complexity
A.B.Cambel
Academic Press, INC
3- Dynamics of Complex Systems
Yaneer Bar-Yam
AddisonWesley
http://necsi.org/html/book.html
4- The Phenomenon of science
Cybernetic approach to human evolution
Valentin F.Turchin
Columbia University Press
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/POSBOOK.html
Time, Chaos and the New Law of Nature
Ilya Prigogin
The Free Press
6- Essays on Life Itself
A Comprehensive Inquiry into the Nature, Origin, and
Fabrication of Life
Columbia University Press1999, ISBN 023110510X
Robert Rosen
7- What is Life?
Erwin
http://home.att.net/~p.caimi/schrodinger.html
8- Application of Network Thermodynamics to Problems in Biomedical Engineering,
NYU Press, NY, 1993, ISBN 0-8147-5490-2
Donald
Casimir Mikulecky
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