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On the Philosophical Ontology for a General System Theory
CUI Weicheng
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2021.06.002
Key Laboratory of Coastal Environment and Resources of Zhejiang Province (KLaCER); School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China
System is a very general concept and theoretically speaking, every problem encountered can be modeled as a system. Thus, the general system theory (GST) proposed by Bertalanffy (1968) and developed by many others e.g. Bunge (1977; 1979; 1983a; 1983b) and Maturana and Varela (1980; 1987) could be treated as a theory of everything (TOE). However, it is well-known that the present version of GST has not reached the level of TOE because it lacks a clear ontology. Currently, quantum mechanics (QM), Newtonian mechanics (NM) and general relativity (GR), suitable for microscopic, macroscopic and cosmic phenomena respectively are based on very different ontologies. In this paper, a unified ontology for the general system theory which could be applied to any scale from micro to cosmic is proposed. It is expected that this could lay a foundation to generalize GST to TOE.
system, general system theory, philosophy, metaphysics, ontology, matter, mind, aether
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