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We consider here how democracy cannot be reduced to consensus and majorityvoting without taking in count contextual systemic social properties. We intend Democracy as context-sensitive, emergent property of social systems. We consider possible empirical confirmatory approaches to be used in case of strategic decisions as in thecase of the Brexit. We present the example of medical practice where no physician would decide a medical treatment on the base of a diagnosis having little more than fifty percent of probabilities to be true (neither a judge would condemn a defendant in court). In the post-industrial, knowledge societies we must face the end of the identity between universal suffrage and democracy.
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In: International journal of systems and society: IJSS ; an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association ; an official publication of the United Kingdom Systems Society (UKSS), Band 4, Heft 1, S. 1-9
ISSN: 2327-3992
In this article, the author briefly summarise the characteristics of the science of complexity or post- Bertalanffy General Systems. The author discusses the shift from considering systems as acquiring properties due to their explicit or supposed design, to self-organised, emergent systems. Characteristics, approaches to modelling and interventions to change vary in nature with the post-Bertalanffy Systemics. While new suitable models and approaches are under study in sciences, such as physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, engineering, and neurosciences, the author detects significant backwardness when dealing with the complexity of social systems and related problems that are developing in the post-industrial age. These problems include economic crises, security, defence, privacy, managing prisons, and supporting development. Such social problems are inadequately faced by using classical Bertalanffy's systemic concepts or by simply transposing models and changing the meaning of variables. This inadequacy is based on the underestimation of the peculiarities of Human Systems that consist of complex interactions that allow coherence and are also cognitive, informal, learning, evolutionary, ecological and non-governable Luhmannian subsystems. The non-cultural or low-cultural accessibility of the approaches considered by the science of complexity contribute to this inadequacy. Finally, the author presents some comments on how the science of systems may further evolve by considering new types of systems and systemic properties such as systemic fields and quantum systems. He speculates about some possible future understanding of human social systems.
In: Systems research and behavioral science: the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research, Band 20, Heft 6, S. 537-539
ISSN: 1099-1743
In: Systems research and behavioral science: the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research, Band 19, Heft 6, S. 605-607
ISSN: 1099-1743
In: Systems research, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 65-72
In: Systems research and behavioral science: the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 131-145
ISSN: 1099-1743