ORGANIZATION: A descriptive language
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2406 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
J.L.R. CHANDLER proposes the following four descriptive concepts relative to thebehavior of any degree oforganization:
Closure: a domain of discourse , a category , a system, an object , unity
Conformation: the components of the closure of a system, the internal patterns of the system, the relationships among the parts of the system, a three dimensional depiction of the internal description of the system, a specific geometric and algebraic description of components of the system
Concatenation: binding parts together, linking changes in the conformation, changes in the internal patterns of a system, the specific linkages between parts of the whole , dynamic processes of the system linking patterns to patterns
Cyclicity: a pattern of concatenations which sustain the system, the potential cyclic walks or pathways over the conformations of the system, the habitual behavior of the closure .
- “These four concepts serve as the basis for a linguistic description of simple and complex material systems. In principle, each concept can be applied to the enumeration of each degree of organization …
- “These four terms are interdependent with each other and must be defined sequentially” (1998, p. 20)
This last comment explains why some of these definitions are not given separately in the Encyclopedia.