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From Collective Beings to Quasi-systems

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This chapter is dedicated to explore among different post-GOFS systemic properties of different nature like ones considered above and based on the concepts of quasi already used in different disciplines since long time. The concept of quasi relates here to quasi-systems, quasi-dynamic coherence and the passage from Multiple Systems-Collective Beings to Quasi-Multiple Systems-Quasi-Collective Beings. The simplified idea assumed by GOFS to deal with systems or nonsystems is unsuitable and having reductionist aspects when dealing with complex systems and multiple phenomena of emergence, having structural dynamics and levels of coherence where DYSAM-like approaches are more appropriated.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We like to recall here how some of the conceptual keywords we are considering here for a post-GOFS were introduced in literature by Italo Calvino in the book Calvino, I., 1988, Six Memos for the Next Millennium. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, in this order: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity, Consistency.

  2. 2.

    See note 1 above.

  3. 3.

    Same meta-structural property will be considered to give eventual rise to different meta-structural properties depending on different parametrical values.

  4. 4.

    Since the multiplicity of emergent quasi-systems is here only supposed as approach and analytically unrecognisable in collective behaviours, their number should be also supposed as given by the number of meta-structural properties valid per instant and along time, however, considered coincident when differentiated only by parametrical values.

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Minati, G., Pessa, E. (2018). From Collective Beings to Quasi-systems. In: From Collective Beings to Quasi-Systems. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7581-5_4

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