Systems Theory


Thinking In Systems: A Primer
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
Introduction to Systems Theory
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Social Systems
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
The Antidotes by Patty MechaelTree of Life by Rochelle StraussBorn With a Bang by Jennifer MorganChildren Just Like Me by Catherine SaundersEnergy Island by Allan Drummond
Systems Thinking for Children
26 books — 7 voters
Markov Decision Processes by Martin L. PutermanDynamic Probabilistic Systems, Volume I by Ronald A. HowardDynamic Probabilistic Systems, Volume II by Ronald A. HowardReinforcement Learning by Richard S. SuttonOptimal Control Theory by Donald E. Kirk
Control and Systems Theory (MMath)
24 books — 7 voters

James Rickards
GPT surpasses all ... when it comes to conversation, research, and writing. ... creating an algo[rithm] that sells stocks based on a large training set of materials, correlations to past crises, and commonsense heuristics aimed at not being the last one out of a burning barn is trivial. The danger ... is not in the single system but in the resonance of millions of similar systems doing the same thing at the same time. No science fiction is needed.
James Rickards, MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

So the next time you peer into the open window of a Web browser, you might ask yourself: where does "the network" end? Does it cease with the virtual worlds, images, and minds of the Internet, or with the silicon-electronic matrix of computing devices, or with the electrical grid that powers the show with energies extracted from waterflow and toxic atom? Perhaps the network extends further—to the Jacquard looms and American war machines that loosened the historical dynamic that eventually stuck ...more
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