1. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 1 General Schemas Theory New General Schemas Theory: Systems, Holons, Meta-Systems & Worlds ISSS 2000 Research Toward a General Theory of Systems SIG Kent Palmer kent@palmer.name http://dialog.net Copyright 2000 K. Palmer. All rights reserved.

2. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 2 General Schemas Theory Schemas System description Form proof Pattern explanation Formal Structural Systems Theory The nominal subset of schemas

3. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 3 General Schemas Theory Schemas Meta-system allusion Holon indication System description Holonomics Exporation of a new subset of schemas

4. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 4 General Schemas Theory Schemas Meta-system whole less than sum of parts Holon whole equal to sum of parts Systemwhole greater than sum of parts A focus on wholeness

5. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 5 A Possible Full Set of Schemas Ontic Hierarchy Physus Ontological Hierarchy Logos Gaia Social Organism Cell Molecule Atom Particle Quark String Pluriverse Kosmos World Domain Meta-system System Form Pattern Facet

6. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 6 World Structure Physus Ontic hierarchy Logos Ontological hierarchy Limited Unlimited Social/Individual hierarchy

7. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 7 Absolute actualization Existence insight Ontos wisdom Episteme knowledge Paradigm information Theory data Facticity given Suchness Social Individual Hierarchy

8. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 8 System Schema Thought of as a social gestalt/flow SynchronicDiachronic Figure BackgroundFlowing Foreground Reference GestaltFlow

9. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 9 Count verses non-Count nouns explain the structure of the Gestalt-Flow duality Boundary Universal Mass Attributes Instance Particular pervasion syllogism back ground fore ground reference figure Two Kinds of Logos

10. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 10 Unity System Application Turing machine greater than sum of parts gestalt/flow “restricted economy” Detotalized totality Meta-system (archon) Operating “system” Universal Turing machine less than sum of parts Field = protogestalt/protoflow “general economy” Duality

11. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 11 SUPER-SYSTEM hierarchical concatenation of systems nesting of gestalt/flows META-SYSTEM deconstruction of systems hierarchy nesting of complementarities Clarification Meta-systems are the dual of super-systems

12. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 12 systemanti-system origin destination Source Resources niche read write Boundary interaction Meta-system Arena

13. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 13 Exceptions Definitions Rules SYSTEM eventities Singularities Resources Complementarities META-SYSTEM system/anti-system DOMAIN Meta-systemic Nesting Higher meta-levels of one level form the basis of the next level

14. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 14 OriginArena BoundarySource Generator Encompassing Regress Sub-Space Regress Root Meta-system Nested Complementarities Deeper and deeper nesting of complementarities describes the field of the proto-gestalt and proto-flow

15. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 15 Meta-systems general economies SingularitiesBlackholes MiraclesCatastrophes

16. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 16 System / Meta-system ordering Gestalt Proto-gestalt Flow Proto-flow Explicit Order Implicit Order Holons

17. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 17 part whole WHOLE PART Koestler’s concept of the Holon Cell Organ Body HOLON

18. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 18 Special Systems System dissipative autopoietic reflexive Meta-system Klir Prigogine Maturana Varela O’Malley Sandywell van Gigch Bataille Arithmetic amicable perfect sociable numbers real algebra complex algebra quaternion algebra octonion algebra sedenion algebra all algebraic properties lose unity conjunction lose commutative property lose associative property lose division property (1, +, -, /, *) (surplus or deficient)

19. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 19 Special Systems Ultra-efficient Ultra-effective Ultra-efficacious Life Consciousness Socio-cultural field

20. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 20 System dissipative autopoietic reflexive Meta-system Special Systems one mirror Two facing mirrors Three facing mirrors Inwardly mirroring tetrahedron Mirrorhouse solitons Super-conductive Cooper pairs Bose-Einstein Condensate (nb. Onar Aam) Physical ExamplesAnalogy Quantum Mechanics/ Relativity Theory Newtonian entropic systems

21. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 21 Emergent Meta-Systems Monad Seed View Candidate creation ~unity (conjunction) mutual action ~commutation gestalt pattern formation ~association annihilation ~division (flowers) (fruit) (leaves) The dynamic of existence VoidEmptiness

22. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 22 System Pure Being Process Being Hyper Being Wild Being Ultra Being EXISTENCE dissipative autopoietic reflexive Meta-system Existence and Being BEING

23. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 23 Levels of Being beings = things = entities Being 1 Being 2 Being 3 Being 4 Being 5 Purepoint Process Hyper Wild Ultra grasp bear encompass Maya = illusion emptiness / void ontological difference present-at-hand ready-to-hand in-hand out-of-hand deterministic/ continuous probabilistic fuzzy chaotic non-deterministic/ discontinuous existence

24. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 24 Wild Being Hyper Being Process Being Pure Being Ultra Being *WER weorthan *WES wesan *BHEU beon *ER *ES Sein *ES Seyn varuna mitra indra fertility goddess agricultural twins non-dualfate non-dualgood non-dualright non-dualorder Primal Ontology

25. 5/3/2015Kent Palmer -- General Schemas Theory -- ISSS 2000 25 seedcandidate monadview EMS EXISTENCEBEING Duality