Introduction to Systems Philosophy by Laszlo Ervin;

Author:Laszlo, Ervin;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 1972-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Building a philosophy of nature :(i)Systems and reality

Nature appears to bring forth ordered dynamic systems which exhibit definite forms of invariance. They are non-summative ordered wholes, irreducible to the functions and properties of their parts. They are self-maintaining by means of a variety of dynamic processes, subsumable under the general heading of negative-feedback steady-state homeostatis, and positive-feedback structural evolution. Diverse populations of such structured systems evolve at different rates and provide environments for one another. Thus the less evolved system may become a subsystem in a more evolved one, and we get hierarchical structuration. Consequently a combination of key state and function descriptions defines physical events which constitute natural systems. Introspective analysis likewise discloses structured sets of qualitatively distinct mental events, and our biperspectival theorem combines these with natural systems in the concept of natural-cognitive systems.

Since everything we can identify in the microhierarchy is either a self-maintaining dynamic structure or an aggregate of many such structures, the fundamental existents are definable in reference to organizational invariances. We thus get the equation,

specified organizational invariance = real micro hierarchical entity = “natural cognitive system,”

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