System and Systems Thinking: Fundamental Theory and Practice
A Gharakhani Bahar
System and Systems Thinking: Fundamental Theory and Practice
A Gharakhani Bahar
A New Look! A Fundamental Approach! System is used for many objective or subjective things and carries a concept with itself than a device name like computer . Based on the book, many evidences show that we are living in a world of objects and their related events . Objects are the things that have their own order or properties in the space . Events are the happenings in relation with the things that have their own rule or methods in the time . News as daily hot subjects and language sentences as tool to explain the world, all are about the objects and their related events! In the news, we have this… or that… and this happened … or that happened … . Also in the natural languages, nouns are the objects and verbs are their related events! Without the nouns and verbs , the language has no functionality in its totality! Objects and events or nouns and verbs are mutually related. Without objects or nouns no event or verb is meaningful to be occurred or done. Also if objects have come into existence in some event in some time, then without events no object can be imagined to be existed! Adjectives are the orders governing the objects and adverbs are the rules governing their related events. If sentences can have no adjectives or adverbs (no order or rule as chaos !), but without nouns and verbs , no concept can be transferred by a sentence! Also nouns imply space and verbs imply time , but adjectives and adverbs some how imply space and time . In most studies, objects usually are consisted of some related parts and their related events of some related stepwise actions. Based on this, objects and their related events (in sum) have their own structure and structural order and behavior and behavioral rule . Structural order and behavioral rule is the discipline governing them. Discipline causes the things (as objects with their related events) to be existed and to continue their existence as they are! So, things have their own structure , behavior and discipline as a whole . With noun , we usually remember the image, shape or structure and with verb , the application, function or behavior of the objects. Adjective reminds us the order in the object and adverb , the rule in its related event. Normally, structures are possible by matter and behaviors by energy . In the nature, discipline is deterministic and usually is possible by the thing’s structural order due to matter or behavioral rule due to energy . For example, a mountain has its own structural order and a river its own behavioral rule! But in the living things that besides the matter and energy also information can be handled, discipline is partly non-deterministic and information is the agent of the non-deterministic part of discipline. For this, consider a boat in a river with a boatman in it! So, matter , energy and information are the most basic resources that make the things. Based on the above concepts, system in its most general and complete concept is any objective or subjective thing as a whole , consisted of some ordered related parts as structure and some ruled stepwise related actions as behavior . The wholeness of system is greater than the sum of its parts. But, in practice, our purpose of system might to be structure, behavior or discipline (order or rule) or a combination of them. This is why system has similar meanings in the dictionaries. Systems usually have their own certain application (by structure), functionality (by structure and behavior) or goal to reach (by structure, behavior and discipline by the aid of information). Read more in the 45 minutes Kindle format short review or even more about 500+ key concepts in the main book. Main book is available in Kindle and Paperback formats with or without extra section including more teaching material for the instructors and students who wish to use the book in a teaching
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