SYSTEMS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY: UNIFYING TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS, EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS THINKING, AND 2ND ORDER CYBERNETIC PERSPECTIVES TO EXPLORE ORIGINATING DYNAMICS.TOWARD REGULATORY MECHANISMS FOR SUSTAINABILITY?

摘要

"As a species we are consuming our little piece of a solar system, pulling little bits of a planet through our individual perceptual unreality fields, and excreting it collectively as concrete, McDonald's, and dogs (White, ISSS, 2000)." Further exploring implications of her view that "Traditional Systems" reside in the "emergence space" at the "center" of confluencing arrays of dynamic flows, i.e., at the center of the wider perspective on "systems" that the author refers to as a "General Evolutionary View," the author discusses the advantages to be achieved as we as systemists gain the ability to point to and to explain the originating dynamics whose confluencing over eons generated the sequential series' of confluencing systems that generate and sustain, not only earth's current biosphere system's composition, but also that of our species' various cultural, social and corporate systems. More importantly for Homo sapiens' progeny, as we as systemists gain deep, structural understanding of this "whole system" view of the relationship between traditional systems, general evolutionary systems, and 2nd Order Cybernetics, we come closer to gaining the "scientific" capability of generating computer simulations that through iterative cycles can visually and quantitatively depict the "quality of life" and sustainability consequences for generations hence of various current cognitive choices. The author invites further dialogue. (Paper intended as a basis for discussion in the Spirituality and Systems Special Integration Group.)