The Systems View of Life
Book description
Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation, leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Systems View of Life as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
For too long we have considered everything in the world through the lens of linear relationships.
Slowly – too slowly in my view – are we realizing the systemic nature of most things.
What Fritjof and Luigi do in their book is enable the reader to truly internalize the systemic nature of the world that we are part of. The ‘being part of’ aspect is critical.
Too many of us humans seem to consider ourselves to be the pinnacle of evolution, tobe in control, to have the right to plunder our planet at our heart’s content.
It is high time…
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