General Schemas Theory
New General Schemas Theory: Systems, Holons,
Meta-Systems & Worlds
ISSS 2000
Research Toward a General Theory of Systems SIG
Kent Palmer
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http://dialog.net
Copyright 2000 K. Palmer. All rights reserved.
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General Schemas Theory
The nominal subset of schemas
Schemas
System description
Formal
Structural
Systems
Theory
Form proof
Pattern explanation
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General Schemas Theory
Exporation of a new subset of schemas
Schemas
Meta-system allusion
Holon indication
Holonomics
System description
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General Schemas Theory
A focus on wholeness
Schemas
Meta-system
whole less than sum of parts
Holon
whole equal to sum of parts
System
whole greater than sum of parts
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A Possible Full Set of Schemas
Ontic Hierarchy
Physus
Ontological Hierarchy
Logos
Gaia
Social
Organism
Cell
Molecule
Atom
Particle
Quark
String
Pluriverse
Kosmos
World
Domain
Meta-system
System
Form
Pattern
Facet
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World Structure
Physus
Logos
Ontic
hierarchy
Ontological
hierarchy
Unlimited
Limited
Social/Individual
hierarchy
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Social Individual Hierarchy
Absolute
actualization
Existence
insight
Ontos
wisdom
Episteme
knowledge
Paradigm
information
Theory
data
Facticity
given
Suchness
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System Schema
Thought of as a social gestalt/flow
Gestalt
Flow
Synchronic
Diachronic
Figure
Background
Flowing Foreground
Reference
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Two Kinds of Logos
Count verses non-Count nouns explain the structure of the
Gestalt-Flow duality
Boundary
back
ground
reference
pervasion
Mass
Instance
Attributes
Particular
fore
ground
syllogism
figure
Universal
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Duality
Unity
Detotalized totality
System
Meta-system (archon)
Application
Operating “system”
Turing machine
Universal Turing machine
greater than sum of parts
less than sum of parts
gestalt/flow
Field = protogestalt/protoflow
“restricted economy”
“general economy”
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Clarification
Meta-systems are the dual of super-systems
SUPER-SYSTEM
META-SYSTEM
hierarchical
concatenation of systems
deconstruction
of systems hierarchy
nesting of gestalt/flows
nesting of complementarities
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Meta-system
Resources
destination
system
interaction
anti-system
niche Arena
niche
origin
Boundary
Source
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Meta-systemic Nesting
Higher meta-levels of one level form the basis of the next level
Singularities
Exceptions
Definitions
Rules
SYSTEM
Resources
Complementarities
DOMAIN
META-SYSTEM
system/anti-system
eventities
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Meta-system Nested Complementarities
Deeper and deeper nesting of complementarities describes the
field of the proto-gestalt and proto-flow
Origin
Boundary
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Arena
Generator
Encompassing
Regress
Source
Sub-Space
Regress
Root
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Meta-systems
general economies
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Singularities
Blackholes
Miracles
Catastrophes
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System / Meta-system ordering
Explicit Order
Gestalt
Flow
Holons
Proto-gestalt
Proto-flow
Implicit Order
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Koestler’s concept of the Holon
WHOLE
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Body
part
HOLON
whole
Organ
PART
Cell
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Special Systems
System
Klir
real
algebra
all algebraic
properties
amicable
complex
algebra
lose unity
conjunction
perfect
quaternion
algebra
lose
commutative
property
octonion
algebra
lose
associative
property
Arithmetic
(1, +, -, /, *)
dissipative
Prigogine
autopoietic
Maturana
Varela
reflexive
O’Malley
sociable
Sandywell
van Gigch
sedenion
Meta-system
numbers
Bataille (surplus or deficient) algebra
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lose division
property
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Special Systems
Ultra-efficient
Ultra-efficacious
Ultra-effective
Life
Consciousness
Socio-cultural field
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Special Systems
Analogy
Physical Examples
System
one mirror
Newtonian entropic
systems
dissipative
Two facing mirrors
solitons
autopoietic
Three facing mirrors
Super-conductive
Cooper pairs
reflexive
Inwardly mirroring
tetrahedron
Bose-Einstein
Condensate
Meta-system
Mirrorhouse
Quantum Mechanics/
Relativity Theory
(nb. Onar Aam)
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Emergent Meta-Systems
The dynamic of existence
creation
~unity
(conjunction)
Monad
Seed
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mutual action
~commutation
Void
Emptiness
annihilation
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(flowers)
View
gestalt pattern formation
~association
(leaves)
Candidate
(fruit)
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System
Pure Being
dissipative
Process Being
autopoietic
Hyper Being
reflexive
Wild Being
BEING
EXISTENCE
Existence and Being
Meta-system
Ultra Being
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Levels of Being
beings = things = entities
ontological difference
Being1
Pure
point
present-at-hand
deterministic/
continuous
Being2
Process
grasp
ready-to-hand
probabilistic
Being3
Hyper
bear
in-hand
fuzzy
Being4
Wild
encompass
out-of-hand
chaotic
emptiness / void
Being5
Ultra
existence
Maya = illusion
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non-deterministic/
discontinuous
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Wild Being
Primal Ontology
*ES
Sein
varuna
Hyper
non-dual
order
non-dual
right
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*ES
Seyn
fertility
goddess
mitra
*BHEU
beon
Being
*ER
agricultural
twins
indra
Pure
non-dual
good
Being
*WES
wesan
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non-dual
fate
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Duality
EXISTENCE
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BEING
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