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I'm basically interested in intervention. The key question for me is: how can you intervene more systemically? Systems approaches make the assumption that things are interconnected. That's the fundamental starting point. However, we don't have the privilege of a God's eye view of that interconnectedness, so there are inevitable limits to understanding, and it is those limits that we call boundaries. So systemic intervention, for me, at a fundamental level, is how to explore those boundaries, and how to take account of the inevitable lack of comprehensiveness and begin to deal with that.
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When I started out, I believed that there were very distinct systems paradigms, and there was a need to choose and defend yours against other people's paradigms. Today I prefer to see a systems perspective as something that you develop over a lifetime. It's like building a house that evolves: you can redecorate it, even build an extension.
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It wasn't so long ago that complexity thinking was synonymous with bottom-up computer simulation. However, in the past 5-10 years we have seen other threads emerge from this mathematically focused starting point that acknowledge the profound philosophical implications of complexity.
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Gerald Midgley is a British organizational theorist, professor of systems thinking, director of the Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull, and past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences.
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