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'Life is not a flame' - Arthur Iberall |
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Homeokinetics is the study of complex systems, such as universes, galaxies, social systems, people, or even those that seem as simple as gases. The entire universe consists of atomistic-like units bound in interactive ensembles to form systems, level by level in a nested hierarchy. Homeokinetics treats all complex systems on an equal footing, animate and inanimate, providing them with a common viewpoint. The complexity in studying how they work is reduced by the emergence of common languages in all complex systems. What is it and who uses it? Iberall's Homeokinetic's Video The late Arthur Iberall, who with the late Warren McCulloch and the late Harry Soodak, developed the concept of homeokinetics as a new branch of physics. It began through Iberall's biophysical research for the NASA exobiology program into the dynamics of mammalian physiological processes. In 1981, Iberall was invited to the Crump Institute for Medical Engineering of UCLA, where he further refined the key concepts of homeokinesis, developing a physical scientific foundation for complex systems' systems of nature, life, human, mind, and society. Scientists using homeokinetics debate their own disciplines with each other in the context of a theoretical framework of systems science, with an emphasis on viable or self-organizing systems. They pay attention to physics (with its conservations of energy, mass, and momentum), chemistry (with its making and breaking of bonds), and to general 'input-output' schemes. Emergence within each field is a topic that intrigues them all.
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