GROWTH and STABILIZATION
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1477 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
St. Template:Ency person writes some curious and stimulating reflexions about growth: “…any organic seminal Template:Ency term that inaugurates and controls growth 'knows when to stop'. This capability applies not only to the macrostructure, so that you and I are roughly the right size to be recognizably human: it also applies to the infrastructure of the Template:Ency term: every limb, every Template:Ency term, every parcel of tissue however delineated, from cranium to toe-nail, grows to a Template:Ency term. During growth, further growth is by definition due to follow: Template:Ency term (except by massive intervention from outside) cannot be arrested until the plan is complete. To this extent, a partly grown Template:Ency term is in an improbable Template:Ency term, and is driving towards its most probable Template:Ency term — adult completion. Growth can be regarded, that is to say, as an Template:Ency term. The growth Template:Ency term stops when the genetic Template:Ency term is used up, actually having been finally and in sum exchanged for potentiality… Growth, then, is a Template:Ency term of a system in which that system 'learns to be what it is'” (1968, p.360-1).
In other words:
1. Growth is within each individual system the actualization Template:Ency term of an Template:Ency term.
2. Growth leads inevitably to Template:Ency term and Template:Ency term.
3. It leads as well to mature Template:Ency term, i.e. Template:Ency term.
4. The original Template:Ency term “seed” must contain an implicit potential (whatever this may mean) for Template:Ency term construction, probably operated through Template:Ency termTemplate:Ency term Template:Ency termTemplate:Ency term \term{}.
5. It must contain coordinated Template:Ency term of Template:Ency term which guide the system along a typical Template:Ency term.