Systemic Referentials:
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Evolutionary and informational referents:
Whether or not all the issues represented here are systemic or not is for others to say! Look. Frankly, I am thinking this thing through. There may be a basis. Ludwig von Bertalanffy said: ""Compared to the analytical procedure of classical science with resolution into component elements and one-way or linear causality as basic category, the investigation of organized wholes of many variables requires new categories of interaction, transaction, organization, teleology..."
(ref. below from http://www.isss.org/ )
It is a LOT of work. It's worth it, perhaps, if we add epistemology and ontology. It's a lot. I'll get back to you in a decade or two. (I never said I was fast or could get it all in one take.) SO, TAKE TWO!
Also, please feel free to see http://referential.bravehost.com and http://referent.bravehost.com and http://gst2.bravehost.com for other takes on the various elements in this complex system of the referential. EJL
Getting started .................................
Definition: Systemic 
1. relating to or affecting a system as a whole... 
2. affecting whole body: as distinct from having a local effect
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861717832/systemic.html
First, what is a System? GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY, Take Two! photocredit: qmssjp "These considerations lead to the postulate of a new scientific discipline which we call general system theory. It's subject matter is formulation of principles that are valid for "systems" in general, whatever the nature of the component elements and the relations or "forces" between them... Ludwig von Bertalanffy
"Compared to the analytical procedure of classical science with resolution into component elements and one-way or linear causality as basic category, the investigation of organized wholes of many variables requires new categories of interaction, transaction, organization, teleology..."
"General system theory, therefore, is a general science of wholeness"...
The meaning of the somewhat mystical expression, "The whole is more that the sum of its parts" is simply that constitutive characteristics are not explanable from the characteristics of the isolated parts. "
"A system, after all, is any unit containing feedback structure and therefore competent to process information."
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Gregory Bateson A Sacred Unity Harper 1991 ISBN 0-06-250100-3
http://www.isss.org/primer/sysquote.htm
Second, Take Two!
What Is The Referential Realm?
- Click:
- Concept module: referential realm
- In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): R
- In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
- In bookshelf: Linguistics
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/glossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsTheReferentialRealm.htm
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Bela A. Banathy
"... in living systems in general, and social systems in particular, evolution and information are so tightly interrelated that it is not appropriate to discuss one without the other."
~ Bela. A. Banathy
http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2001/Rosicky.htm
Take Three!
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