equilibria

Equilibria:

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Complex Homeostasis

"Even though there are many types of systems, nearly every system is of the type that is complexly homeostatic. Complexly homeostatic systems maintain multiple equilibria at multiple levels."

by Win Wenger, Ph.D.

http://www.winwenger.com/homstas.htm

"Already in the 1930's Bertalanffy formulated the organismic system theory that later became the kernel of the GST (1949b, 1960a). His starting point was to deduce the phenomena of life from a spontaneous grouping of system forces--comparable, for instance, to the system developmental biology nowadays. He based his approach on the phenomenal assumption that there exists a dynamical process inside the organic system. In the next step he led the heuristic fiction of the organism as an open system striving towards a steady state. Then he postulated two biological principles, namely, the maintenance of the organism in the non-equilibrium, and the hierarchic organization of a systemic structure. Finally he furnished this biological system theory with a research program that dealt with the quantitative kinetic of growth and metabolism."

http://www.isss.org/lumLVB.htm

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/^PCPBIBLIO.html