The Science of Systems: A Unified View of Nature’s Patterns describes how complex and connected systems provides a revolutionary scientific worldview that bridges disciplines and provides tools for implementing strategic change. The book is an illustrative guide to understand common patterns in natural systems, like emergence, equilibrium, flux, symmetry, fractals, chaos, self-organization, information theory, and sustainability. The book provides a new lens to connect scientific disciplines and leverage the science of complex systems to address problems facing our modern world.
The Systems of Science addresses some of the deepest questions about nature and science including:
- How has the modern findings of complex systems (e.g. chaos theory, self-organization, irreducibility, emergence) shifted the scientific paradigm?
- What are the fundamental principles of systems and what is a system, in general?
- How does systems theory relate to the fields of science and support the unity of science (the notion that all science should, in principle, be consistent)?
- What are the principles of abstract formal systems (logic, math, geometry, etc.), their limits, and how can they be used to model the concrete systems of nature?
- What patterns come about in modeling nature’s systems (equilibrium, flux, symmetry, fractal, entropy, chaos, order, information, etc.) and what insights can be gained about the universe, the formation of life, and the emergence of consciousness?
- How can systems thinking and considering complex connections be used to create solutions to difficult problems, like sustainability?
- What are some of the most effective intervention methods and leverage points to create systemic change in our world?