COMPLEX (Supremacy of the)
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 539 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Methodology or model |
H. SABELLI opposes in a dialectic way what he calls the “priority of the simple” and the “supremacy of the complex” (1994).
He means therewith that any complex process dominates and controls more simple ones, but that their existence is conditioned by the prior existence of the simpler ones. For example, the physical processes of the inanimate world are simpler than the biological ones, but, in an organism the physical components are organized by the physiological ones. SABELLI states: “It is thus, in principle possible to study the superior processes through the consideration of the organization of the simpler ones which constitutes them; reciprocally, to understand how the inferior ones are organized, it is necessary to consider the superior ones, which control them” (Ibid).
In this way, the analytic and the synthetic viewpoints become complementary and reciprocally needed.