Transcending an Asystemic View of Life
Review of The Systems View of Life: a unifying vision
Introduction
Inadequacy of conventional systems thinking
Restrictive comprehension of “life” and “death”?
Asystemic organization of unifying vision?
Uncritical asystemic selectivity?
Unexamined methodological constraints
Beyond promotion of “our plan”
Questionable meta-patterns of explanation
Mapping complementary and contrasting views
Transcending sterile meta-patterns of explanation
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