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ISSS Yearbook 1999.
September 1, 2000... This special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science brings together a series of papers that are based on plenary presentations at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. The meeting was held from...
Robert Rosen: The Well-Posed Question and its Answer -- Why Are Organisms Different from Machines?
September 1, 2000... SCIENCE AND THE ISSUE OF COMPLEXITY
The goal of this paper is to reveal to the reader a critique of the science which has persisted since the time of Descartes, and to recommend some new directions. This entails both the deconstruction of...
Trans-Scientific Frameworks of Knowing: Complementarity Views of the Different Types of Human Knowledge(a).
September 1, 2000... SCIENCE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF `WORLD FORMULA THINKING'
The idea of a purely objective (empirical-mathematical) knowledge appears to be inherent to the basic philosophy of modern science since Galileo formulated it. By insisting that...
The Nature of the Laws of Nature.
September 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION
I want to indulge in what is for me a basic question -- namely, what is the nature of the laws of nature? To do this I have to present to the reader the fundaments for both the question and for the answer that I shall propose....
Attributing Nature with Justifications.
September 1, 2000... FOREWORD
I think many, if not most, of us are unhappy with the environmental and social impasse that we see humanity blundering into, and we would like to see some changes. This is not a new concern, and what I want to present is not new,...
Navigating Bounded and Unbounded Spaces.
September 1, 2000... The following brief notes are intended to offer an intuitive look at means of navigating the world of artifacts, the world of living systems, and the relationship between the two. These comments are based on excerpts from the Presidential...