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Anonymous Thu Dec 22 03:28:01 2022 No.21416543 [Reply] [Original]

What is a system, /lit/? I'm sure most of us have heard the word "system" in various contexts, such as in philosophical writings, instructional material about the natural sciences, literature, descriptions of governments and power structures, amongst other things, but which field of knowledge has the most "correct" definition of them?
Is systems thinking lumping stuff together? Or is it looking at stuff through a specific lens and regarding each thing as playing a particular role within a group of things?
Do systems, properly speaking, belong within the realm of humanistic thought, or to the realm of the natural sciences and their analytic methods? Does the same definition for the word "system" apply all throughout for every one of them, or is an equivocal term?
Finally, are there any writers or prominent thinkers who have shared their thoughts on this matter?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 22 03:30:09 2022 No.21416546 File: 80 KB, 907x1360, BigKantBook.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21416543 Systematic par excellence

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 22 03:30:24 2022 No.21416547 >>21416543 Is a word that is defined by other words.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 22 03:32:50 2022 No.21416551 Initial: A collection of things that share relationships with one another After seeing definition: System implies complexity but precisely defining complexity seems impossible so meh

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 22 08:58:56 2022 No.21417369 >>21416543 Lmao I study this shit (electrical engineering). I think of it as input/output. So much of math is trying to model more and more complex systems.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 22 17:52:33 2022 No.21418879 >>21416543 A system is a set of parts organized so as to form a cohesive whole, where cohesive is defined differently depending on context.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 22 18:00:49 2022 No.21418911 Check out Stuart Kauffman and Eric Beinhocker

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