537.30 General Systems Applications

537.31 The 12 universal degrees of freedom govern the external and internal motions of all independent systems in Universe. In order to take synergetic strategy advantage and thereby to think comprehensively and anticipatorily, in terms of total systems, we have to start off with Universe itself as a closed finite system that misses none of the factors. We must also include all the universal degrees of freedom, and the approximately unlimited range of frequencies in the use thereof, which cover all variable interrelationships of Universe. They become the controlling factors governing general systems and, thereby govern such supercomplex systems design as that of a nation’s navy or a fundamental program for comprehensively considerate and efficiently effective use of all world resources. The general systems approach starts with the differentiation of Universe, including both metaphysical and physical, and permits progressive subdivisions in cybemetical bits to bring any local pattern of any problem into its identification within the total scheme of generalized system events. Problem solving starts with Universe and thereafter subdivides by progressively discarding irrelevancies thereby to identify the “critical path” priorities and order of overlapping developments that will most economically and efficiently and expeditiously realize the problem’s solution by special local problem identification and location within the totality of the problem-solving scenario.

537.32 Because of our overspecialization and our narrow electromagnetic spectrum range of our vision, we have very limited integrated comprehension of the significance of total information. For this reason, we see and comprehend very few motions among the vast inventory of unique motions and transformation developments of Universe. Universe is a nonsimultaneous complex of unique motions and transformations. Of course, we do not “see” and our eyes cannot “stop” the 186,000-miles-per-second kind of motion. We do not see the atomic motion. We do not even see the stars in motion, though they move at speeds of over a million miles per day. We do not see the tree’s or child’s moment-to-moment growth. We do not even see the hands of a clock in motion. We remember where the hands of a clock were when we last looked and thus we accredit that motion has occurred. In fact, experiment shows that we see and comprehend very little of the totality of motions.

537.33 Therefore, society tends to think statically and is always being surprised, often uncomfortably, sometimes fatally by the omni-inexorable motion of Universe. Lacking dynamic apprehension, it is difficult for humanity to get out of its static fixations and to see great trends evolving. Just now, man is coming into technical discovery of general systems theory. The experimental probing of the potentials of the computers awakened man to a realization of the vast complexes of variables that can be mastered by general systems theory. So far, man has dealt but meagerly and noncomprehensively with his powerful planning capability. So far, he has employed only limited systems theory in special open-edged systems extemdash “tic-tac-toe” rectilinear grid systems and planar matrixes. The arbitrary open parameters of infinite systems can never be guaranteed to be adequate statements of all possible variables. Infinite systems engender an infinite number of variable factors. Unless one starts with Universe, one always inadvertently starts with open infinite systems. Only by starting with finite Universe and progressively dismissing finite irrelevancies can one initiate finite, locally limited, general systems theory to assured satisfaction in problem solving.

537.34 The Dymaxion airocean world map is only one of many devices that could provide man with a total information-integrating medium. We are going to have to find effective ways for all of humanity to see total Earth. Nothing could be more prominent in all the trending of all humanity today than the fact that we are soon to become world man; yet we are greatly frustrated by all our local, static organizations of an obsolete yesterday.