A common charge leveled against the autopoietic perspective is that it does not explain change or, consequently, knowledge creation. This book demonstrates that knowledge creation is not always an ongoing process, as is claimed in many process philosophy and autopoietic research works. The...

Chapter 1. Tribute to three voices -- Chapter 2. The role of Information and Communication Technologies in Human Interactions -- Chapter 3. Interdisciplinary systems thinking for a new scientific paradigm: toward a re-founding of human values -- Chapter 4. Autonomous Systems and the Place of...

Chapter 1. The Background of Good-Old-Fashioned-Systemics -- Part. I -- Chapter 2. Perspective new conceptual categories -- Chapter 3. Dynamics -- Chapter 4. From collective beings to quasi-systems -- Chapter 5. New formalisation? -- Chapter 6. Theoretical systemics and quantum field theory --...