책/An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

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Systems Thinking 3부작을 썼음.

• Active Regulation: General Systems Design Principles
• An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
• Rethinking Systems Analysis and Design

책의 구성

• The Problem
  • The Complexity of the World
  • Mechanism and Mechanics
  • The Square Law of Computation
  • The Simplification of Science and the Science of Simplification
  • Statistical Mechanics and the Law of Large Numbers
  • The Law of Medium Numbers
• The Approach
  • Organism, Analogy, and Vitalism
  • The Scientist and Her Categories
  • The Main Article of General Systems Faith
  • The Nature of General Systems Laws
  • Varieties of Systems Thinking
• System and Illusion
  • A System Is a Way of Looking at the World
  • A System Is a Set
  • Observers and Observations
• Interpreting Observations
  • States
  • The Eye-Brain Law
  • The Generalized Thermodynamic Law
  • Functional Notation and Reductionist Thought
  • Incompleteness and Overcompleteness
  • The Generalized Law of Complementarity
• Breaking Down Observations
• Describing Behavior
• Some Systems Questions