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In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both organismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend that saw itself as a protest movement against the increasing fragmentation and alienation of human nature. The entire Weimar culture was characterized by an antimechanistic outlook, a "hunger for wholeness". Organismic biology, Gestalt psychology, ecology, and, later on, general
systems
theory all grew out of this holistic zeitgeist.
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Lack of flexibility manifests itself as stress.... stress will occur when one or more variables of the
system
are pushed to their extreme values, which induces increased rigidity throughout the
system
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Understanding ecological interdependence means understanding relationships. It requires the shifts of perception that are characteristic of
systems
thinking—from the parts to the whole, from objects to relationships, from contents to patterns.... Nourishing the community means nourishing those relationships.
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Before the 1940s the terms "
system
" and "
systems
thinking" had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an open
system
and a general
systems
theory that established
systems
thinking as a major scientific movement
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This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the hallmarks of life. It has been recognized as the dynamic origin of development, learning, and evolution. In other words, creativity-the generation of new forms-is a key property of all living
systems
.
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With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics, the concepts of
systems
thinking and
systems
theory became integral parts of the established scientific language, and led to numerous new methodologies and applications —
systems
engineering,
systems
analysis,
systems
dynamics, and so on.
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A major clash between economics and ecology derives from the fact that nature is cyclical, whereas our industrial
systems
are linear. Our businesses take resources, transform them into products plus waste, and sell the products to consumers, who discard more waste...
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Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving
systems
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One of the key insights of the
systems
approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
Fritjof Capra
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Born:
February 1, 1939
(age 86)
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