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| Author: | Salthe, S. N. |
| Title: | Natural Philosophy and Developmental Systems |
| Journal: | Systems Research and Behavioral Science
2001 : SEP-OCT, VOL. 18:5, p. 403-410 |
| Index terms: | PHILOSOPHY DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Natural philosophy is being revived by way of grounding it in thermodynamics and information theory. This discourse systematizes information from all the sciences so that every field of knowledge of nature supports every other as parts of a concept of general evolution. The point is to construct an intelligible picture of the world. Change in material systems involves both development and evolution. General evolution is primarily developmental, and the specification hierarchy of integrative levels can be used to model it. In this hierarchy, biology is seen as a kind of material system and social phenomena as kinds of biological systems. Ibis pattern implies there was a tendency toward psychology on the earth. This scheme is biased by having been produced by psychological, social, biological beings, integrating humans with the rest of nature, and so it embodies valuation. |
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