The systems thinking we introduced earlier in the chapter tells us that we need to develop and maintain a symbiotic relationship with our environment and nature more broadly. Integrated systems will not survive if one of the components is depleting another important component that contributes to the overall system. The industrial age of the 20th […]
So let’s commence our understanding of systems by starting with a very brief discussion of how we fit into the ultimate system – the universe. Why do we think there was a “big bang”? Direct observations made by the Hubble telescope tell us that the planets and stars that we can see are in fact
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Complexity arises from the inter-relationship, inter-action and inter-connectivity of components within a system and between a system and its environment. However, we are not only concerned with complexity. We are also concerned with complexity that results in self-regulating, self-correcting and adaptive systems. For the purposes of MPI, we’re mostly concerned with the understanding of self-correcting,
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Before discussing natural systems such as humans and plants and animals we need to understand systems. A system is composed of interrelated parts or components that cooperate in some way. Natural systems include biological entities like humans, oceans, the climate, the solar system and ecosystems. Systems that have been artificially created include cars, software systems,
The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. – Albert Einstein Are we, humans, the apex of the universe? Is everything that you see really as it is? What is reality? Does this big picture depend on you? Do you have free will? What is the evidence for the Big Bang
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Does Your Success Depend On Your Genetics? Is There A Gene For Determination? What about altering the genes of an embryo to improve intelligence or athletic ability? Only 1 in 10 say yes but I suspect that number will increase over time. But, what’s “really” going here? The people that answered ‘yes’ in this survey
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