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Selforganization: Portrait of a Scientific Revolution

Selforganization: Portrait of a Scientific Revolution

Küppers, Gunter
Nowotny, H.
Krohn, Wolfgang

Hardcover

Series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, Book 14

PhilosophyGeneral ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0792308301
ISBN13: 9780792308300
Publisher: Springer
Published: Aug 31 1990
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
may be complex without being able to be replaced by something still more simple . This became evident with the help of computer models of deterministic-recursive systems in which simple mathematical equation systems provide an extremely complex behavior. (2) Irregularity of nature is not treated as an anomaly but becomes the focus of research and thus is declared to be normal. One looks for regularity within irregularity. Non-equilibrium processes are recognized as the source of order and the search for equilibrium is replaced by the search for the dynamics of processes. (3) The classical system-environment model, according to which the adaptation of a system to its environment is controlled externally and according to which the adaptation of the system occurs in the course of a learning process, is replaced by a model of systemic closure. This closure is operational in so far as the effects produced by the system are the causes for the maintenance of systemic organization. If there is sufficient complexity, the systems perform internal self-observation and exert self-control ( Cognition as understood by Maturana as self-perception and self-limitation, e. g., that of a cell vis-a. -vis its environment). 22 But any information a system provides on its environment is a system-internal construct. The reference to the other is merely a special case of self-reference . The social sciences frequently have suffered from the careless way in which scientific ideas and models have been transferred.

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