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Re: Equilibrium, stasis and death

Paul Christensen noted that "what we need is a total systems approach..."
Clarification, please.  Is the reference to offshoots of Bertalanffy's
systems (note the plural) theory or to variants on Zadeh's system theory
(or neither of these)?  The latter has greater affinity for complexity/
chaos than does the former which I have always seen as too "mechanistic".
There was always too much "logical positivism" in systems theory, IMHO.

Brian Eggleston
Department of Economics
Augustana College
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