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represent significant extensions of
general systems theory. They enable
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Sometime ago, a good friend of mine, a retired electrical engineer, much interested in robotics and in 'artificial intelligent systems', his personal Holy Grail, told me: 'I really wonder about the usefulness of
General Systems Theory. It is not offering any solution to any real problem'.
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But his real love was
general systems theory. He would often say in his talks how wonderful it was that God divided up the world in such convenient parts so it could be represented by the various conventional natural science disciplines.
Miller's approach incorporated insights from both cybernetics and general systems theory, integrating the mechanical orientation of cybernetics with the organic and hierarchical orientation of
general systems theory. Miller described living systems as 'open, self-organizing systems', with 'the ability to maintain, for a significant period, a steady state in which the entropy ...