This book contains the proceedings of the Sixth National Conference
of the Italian Systems Society. The title, Towards a
post-Bertalanffy Systemics, aims to underline the need for
Systemics and Systems Science to generalize theoretically concepts
related to complexity (the great enemy of Bertalanffy Systemics).
Hopefully this goal should be achieved by working in an
inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary fashion, using systemic
concepts arising from various disciplines and from the original, or
Bertalanffy Systemics, as well. The interdisciplinary nature of the
original Systemics and its power of generalization were given,
overall, by the fact that the problems and solutions of one
discipline become problems and solutions for another. Today, the
modeling and interpretation of multidisciplinary approaches and
representations makes easier to recognize these interconnections.
The context, however, has changed dramatically. Of course, the
challenge is still to find theoretical generalizations and
applications, even where we have a lot of specificities, but we
know very little on how to combine them. We cannot, however, simply
replace the old with the new, but we must introduce strategies to
recognize, represent, model and act on new levels, combining
multiple representations, functions and emergence. In many
disciplines this has been already done, and inevitably well, since
targets and projects are well specified and oriented. The challenge
is to do it for Systemics, with the vocations of cultural and
theoretical generalization. Examples of new issues introduced by
such theoretical disciplinary improvements, dealt with by many
disciplines, include the study of mesoscopic or middle-way level,
of multiple and dynamic coherence, of equivalence/non-equivalence,
of fractality, of networks, of non-causality, of non-invasiveness,
of non-prescribability, of non-separability, of quasi properties,
of symmetry properties, of topological dynamics, as well as of
quantum theories and concepts. The conference was devoted to
identifying, discussing and understanding possible
interrelationships of theoretical disciplinary improvements,
recognized as having prospective fundamental roles for a new
post-Bertalanffy Systemics. The latter should be able to deal with
problems related to complexity in a generalized way. In this
context the inter-disciplinarity should consists, for instance, in
a disciplinary reformulation of problems, as from algebraic to
geometrical, from military to political, from biological to
chemical, while the trans-disciplinarity should be related to the
study of such reformulations and their properties. The Italian
Systems Society (AIRS) was founded in the 1996. The AIRS is a
network of academicians, scientists, researchers and professionals
involved in Systemics. A partial list of disciplines represented
is: Architecture Biology Economics Education Engineering
Mathematics Neurosciences Medicine Music Philosophy Psychology
Physics. Previous conferences had as open lecturers professors
Arecchi, Haken, Klir, and Kauffman. The proceedings have been
published as: 1. Minati, G., (ed.), (1998), Proceedings of the
first Italian Conference on Systemics, Apogeo Scientifica, Milan,
Italy. 2. Minati, G., and Pessa, E., (eds.) (2002), Emergence in
Complex Cognitive, Social and Biological Systems. Kluwer, New York.
3. Minati, G., Pessa, E., and Abram, M., (eds.), (2006), Systemics
of Emergence: Research and Applications. Springer, New York. 4.
Minati, G., Abram, M. and Pessa, E., (eds.), (2009), Processes of
emergence of systems and systemic properties. Towards a general
theory of emergence. World Scientific, Singapore. 5. Minati, G.,
Abram, M. and Pessa, E., (eds.), (2012), Methods, Models,
simulations and approaches - towards a general theory of change.
World Scientific, Singapore.
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