The “Extended Framework for a General Systems Theory” (EFGST) builds upon the original “Framework for a General Systems Theory” that I first released several months ago. The original framework provided a structured, cross-disciplinary approach to understanding systems, their properties, and the causal processes that drive them.
This new Extended Framework expands this foundation with several key advances that connect systems theory more tightly to physical and informational dynamics:
- Seeds and Contra-Seeds describe how systems can be triggered to develop or decay through reinforcing or opposing influences.
- Mobus’s Concept of Systemness, Integrated with the notion of state spaces, helps describe how systems maintain coherence, evolve, and approach attractors.
- Troncale’s Linkage Propositions are reinterpreted within EFGST as causal-probabilistic connections that can potentially be used to map probabilities across configuration and state spaces, providing a degree of predictability.
- Recomposition provides a new explanatory model for how complex systems build upon rather than replace their components, clarifying how emergence arises in distinct levels.
Together, these extensions bring the framework closer to a unified theory of system dynamics, applicable from physics and biology to social and cognitive systems.
You can read the overview paper and explore the detailed set of definitions and propositions here:
Overview Paper (Academia.edu): https://www.academia.edu/144773922/Overview_of_the_Extended_Framework_for_a_General_Systems_Theory
Overview Paper (Rational-Understanding) and Complete Definitions and Propositions List: https://rational-understanding.com/efgst/
These materials form the foundation for ongoing work towards an integrated General Systems Theory; one that connects the causal, energetic, and informational dimensions of system behaviour.
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