Glossary

The below files offer explanations of important concepts in system science.
 

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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A

Analogy

Artificial Intelligence

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B

Building blocks

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C

CGP or Constrained Generating Procedure

Closure: organisational closure

Closure dimension

Closure: first-next possible

Closure level

Closure: structural and functional

Complexity of a closure dimension

Complexity and information

Complexity

Confinement

Corrupt hierarchy

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D

Dimension (evolutionary dimensions in the operator hierarchy)

Dissipative system

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E

Efficiency

Emergent property (general)

Emergent property (due to closure)

Entropy

Evolution

Evolutionary layer

Evolutionary success

Extraterrestrial life

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F

First-next possible closure

Force

Fundamental particle

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G

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H

Hardwiring

Hierarchical layer

Hierarchy (general)

Hierarchy (as used in the Operator Hypothesis)

Hypercycle

Hypercycle Mediating Interface

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I

Information

Information and complexity

Intelligence

Interaction

Interaction system

Intermediate stage

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J

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K

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L

Life/living

Life: meaning of

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M

Major transition

Meme

Meta-evolution

Minor transition

Model

Modularity

Multi-unit operator

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N

Natural systems (sometimes referred to as real world systems by others)

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O

Operator (as used in the operator hierarchy)

Operator hierarchy

Operator hypothesis

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P

Penultimate level (Law of)

Phylogenetic tree

Pre-operatorhypercyclic set

Primary operator

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Q

Quanta of evolution

Quantification

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R

Random

Recursive (of a definition)

Resource dominance

Resource dominance strategies

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S

Softwiring

Structural Auto-Copying of Information

Structural Auto-Evolution

System

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T

Tool

Topology

Transition

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U

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V

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W

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X

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Z