Focus for this week: Systems (past focus)

From I ask questions

• SystemsWiki (thefirstdiscipline.org (Systemic Intervention))
• systemdynamics.org: Resources
• Links Systemdenken / systems thinking

• Conway's Game of Life
• Systems biology
• A New Kind of Science
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems

Multimedia

songs:

• 2001 Alan AtKisson: a song about Systems Theory (or the Systems Zoo) (lyrics on page)

• 1973 Niklas Luhmann about systems theory (de: part1, part2)
• 1989 Niklas Luhmann: systems + environment (de)
• 1990 Philosophie heute - Die neuen Weltbilder der Chaosforschung (de: part1, part2, part3, part4, part5)
• 2008 Systemtheorie Remix: de

tags:

• Systemtheorie
• systems theory
• systems science

Seminar: What are systems ?

• Platon
  • Philebus (de: [1], Schleiermacher)
• Johann Heinrich Lambert
  • Systematologie
• Gottfried Leibniz
  • Monadology (de: [2])
  • allgemeine Charakteristik / Characteristica universalis
• Thomas Hobbes
  • Leviathan
• Immanuel Kant
  • Architektonik der reinen Vernunft
  • Transzendentale Methodenlehre
• Ludwig von Bertalanffy
  • Robots, Men and Minds
• Humberto Maturana / Francisco Varela
  • Constructivist epistemology / Radikaler Konstruktivismus
• Manfred Eigen
  • Das Spiel
• Achim Stephan
  • Emergenz: Von der Unvorhersagbarkeit zur Selbstorganisation.
• Niklas Luhmann
  • Soziale Systeme

Readings (alphabetical)

• Jerome Groopman
• Donella Meadows
• George Pólya
• Alan Watts
• Gerald M. Weinberg
• Zhuangzi

and others

ToDo

• environmental studies (academic earth)
• update: Trial and error > Do you see the systems ?
• Fractals
• w:Tectology
• w:de:Systemarchetyp
• wikibooks:Systems Theory
• w:Systemics
• Mueller Science