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Mobius bands and Mandelbrot sets as metaphors for systemic praxis
Author(s) -
McIntyreMills Janet J.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.889
Subject(s) - praxis , proposition , linkage (software) , sociology , mathematical economics , natural (archaeology) , epistemology , computer science , mathematics , philosophy , geography , chemistry , biochemistry , archaeology , gene
This essay explores a ‘Linkage proposition’, to use Len Troncale's expression, that the universe—both social and natural—is a feedback/feed forward loop. Mathematically, it can be described as recursive Mobius Band (see Kauffman, 2006). Energy transfer and communication link social and natural systems. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.