HETEROGENEITY
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1520 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Methodology or model |
Coexistence in a Template:Ency term of a number of Template:Ency term of different types.
Any Template:Ency term must carry out a Template:Ency term of Template:Ency term in order to maintain its Template:Ency term. If Template:Ency term results of the complementary Template:Ency term of numerous Template:Ency term, these Template:Ency term need necessarily be of different kinds. This may be observed easily in human as well as in biological systems.
Heterogeneity is a sine qua non condition of Template:Ency term because it allows the Template:Ency term of Template:Ency term and increases enormously the system's Template:Ency term, which thus becomes Template:Ency term, its capacity of useful Template:Ency term with its Template:Ency term being as a result, vastly enhanced.
Heterogeneity expresses itself at various Template:Ency term in most (if not all) Template:Ency term: the specialized Template:Ency term are generally themselves Template:Ency term. Template:Ency person did demonstrated this in a very thorough manner in his “Template:Ency term Template:Ency term” (l978).
Template:Ency person used the expression “unitas multiplex” which makes perfectly clear the idea of a complex multiplicity within a Template:Ency term, but it never became of common use (1969, p.27).
Heterogeneity grows by Template:Ency term processes, as for example:
- Template:Ency person's Template:Ency term;
- Template:Ency person's Template:Ency term;
- von Template:Ency person and Template:Ency person's Template:Ency term;
- Template:Ency person's Template:Ency term originated by giant Template:Ency term in Template:Ency term.
Its development needs a source of Template:Ency term and an internal Template:Ency term sufficiently wide to be moderately constrained. Unrestricted heterogeneity would lead back to Template:Ency term and to the systems demise. Excess of Template:Ency term would finally block it, which is another road to destruction.
Heterogeneity also presents a temporal Template:Ency term: The different Template:Ency term or Template:Ency term transform themselves along different Template:Ency term and Template:Ency term in Template:Ency term, while these Template:Ency term and Template:Ency term combine to produce a global and generally very intricated Template:Ency term.
Finally, space heterogeneity as an Template:Ency term condition favoured the appearance of heterogeneous systems. According to the German biophysicist Template:Ency person :“ The driving force for the Template:Ency term of Template:Ency term is seen in a specific Template:Ency term Template:Ency term to be found on the surface of the earth. By this Template:Ency term, which is Template:Ency term in Template:Ency term and heterogeneous in Template:Ency term, Template:Ency term is initiated and driven towards a continuously increasing degree of Template:Ency term correlated to a continuous expansion of the accessible living Template:Ency term” (1976, p.68).
According to Template:Ency person: “Spatial heterogeneity and Template:Ency term are interdependent. Template:Ency term creates patches, but Template:Ency term modifies and sets the extent of the Template:Ency term — that is, the Template:Ency term responds to the underlying heterogeneity of the Template:Ency term. Different patch types generate different Template:Ency term and degrees of Template:Ency term and provide numerous opportunities for Template:Ency term” (1994, p.434).
The whole subject is closely related to Template:Ency term and Template:Ency term in Template:Ency term, etc.
In a different meaning, Template:Ency person widely researched heterogeneity in cultures and states: “In any society, at any time there is heterogeneity of logics among individuals. It is possible to find individuals of any logical type in any culture at any time… Cultural differences consist in the way some logical type becomes dominant and influences individuals of other types. Beneath the homogeneous surface of a culture, there are all individual logical types, hidden, camouflaged or transformed” (1994, p.3).
As observed by Template:Ency person, heterogeneity is in some societies and cultures considered positive, and in others, negative. He argues that heterogeneity could “mean Template:Ency term for mutual benefit”, a view held in some African cultures, as the Template:Ency person of Western Africa.
The use of the term “heterogeneous” seems subject to some misunderstandings. Template:Ency person writes: “There are no heterogeneous systems (e.g. systems composed of people and values, or books and theories)” (1993, p.214)
This should be correct if we would give to “heterogeneous” the Template:Ency term of “foreign to”, or “not coherent with”, or “without Template:Ency term and Template:Ency term relations”. An hypothetical living being, constructed from Template:Ency term and Template:Ency term from different and unrelated animals would be heterogeneous in this sense… but could not function, nor survive.