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Power, Autonomy, Utopia - New Approaches Toward Complex Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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Power, Autonomy, Utopia - New Approaches Toward Complex Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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The "world" is becoming more and more intractable. We have learned
to discern "systems" in it, we have developed a highly
sophisticated math ematical apparatus to "model'" them, large
computer simulation programs handle thousands of equations with
zillions of parameters. But how ade quate are these efforts? Part
One of this volume is a discussion containing some proposals for
eliminating the constraints we encounter when approaching complex
systems with our models: Is it possible, at all, to design a
political or econom ic system without considering killing, torture,
and oppression? Can we adequately model the present state of
affairs while ignoring their often symbolic and paradoxical nature?
Is it possible to explain teleological concepts such as "means" and
"ends" in terms of basically 17th century Newtonian mechanics? Can
we really make appropriate use of the vast a mount of systems
concepts without exploring their relations, without de veloping a
"system of systems concepts"? And why do more than 95% of all
system modelling efforts end in just a heap of printed paper, and
nothing else? Leading scientists from different disciplines, who
have different viewpoints and use very different styles in
presenting their message were invited to present their approaches
to these and to other problems of equal importance: Either as
Plenary Lectures at the Seventh European Meeting on Cybernetics and
Systems Research at the University of Vienna, Austria, (Professors
Stafford Beer, Helga Nowotny, and Robert Rosen (Ross Ashby Memorial
Lecture)) or as Invited Lectures to the Austrian Society"
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