ORGANICISM (BAHM)
Charles François (2004). ORGANICISM (BAHM), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 2397.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2397 ▶ |
| Object type | Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
A. BAHM has proposed a general concept of organicism, i.e. not limited to biology, in the following terms:
- “… it centers about a concept of ”organic unity“… organicism incorporates emergentistic ideas about holons as loci of integrative tendencies conducive to the emergence and maintenance of larger wholes and higher levels of organization… It helds that sometimes the tendencies in parts to unite in a larger whole are stronger, and sometimes the tendencies of a whole to unite its parts are stronger. When these two kinds of tendencies cooperate, integration is facilitated; when they compete, integration may be retarded…
- “Organicism concedes to structuralism that when organicism attributes organic wholeness variably to all existing system, the universal presence of such organic wholeness may be regarded as a structural invariant” (1984, p.207).