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Systems Theory and Application
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Systems Theory and Application

by Scott Jackson, Ricardo Moraes
October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
90 pages
1h 59m
English
CRC Press
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9 Systems Thinking

DOI: 10.1201/9781003449935-9

Introduction

The essence of this chapter is that anyone should know that the universe is full of systems and that everyone should know what those systems are, and that they should be able to recognize the systems in which they live or exist.

Primary sources for this topic are [1, 2 and 3]. The two most obvious answers to this question are (1) the universe and (2) humanity. We will expand on this idea in this chapter.

First, we need to remind ourselves of what a system is. There are four answers to this question. They are: (1) a system must consist of many parts, (2) the parts must interact, and (3) the collection of parts (the system) should exhibit emergence, which is a property not identifiable ...

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ISBN: 9781003824459