Comparision Organism, Society, and Supranational System

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Comparision Organism, Society, and Supranational
System

• Author James Grier Miller
• ??? taeho kim
• thkim_at_cosmos.kaist.ac.kr

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Content

• 19 Critical Subsystems on 3 level
• Differences between 3 levels
• Remarks

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19 Subsystems in 3 levels
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19 Subsystems in 3 levels(cont)
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Differences between 3-levels

• Periods of origin (years)
• - Organism 5 X 108(500 million)
• - Society 5 x 103(B.C 50007000)
• - Supranational 4.5 x 103(sumerian)
• Size (meter of diameter, median)
• - Organism 10-2 (micro100m)
• - Society 106 (100011 million)
• - Supranational 5 x 106( 300k16,000k)

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Differences between 3-levels(cont)

• Emergents (more in higer level)
• - Organism associative learning (animal
  phylum), emotion, symbolic language
• - Society each stage of society evolution (new
  type of government, various artistic and
  technological advance)
• - Supranational Supranational agency (
  resolving conflicts among nations)

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Differences between 3-levels(cont)

• Indicator
• - Organism blood-pressure, IQ
• - Society rate of unemployment, of housing,
  stock market, GNP, of people (health insurance,
  graduate)
• - Supranational scarce resources, growth of
  population of entire worlds

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Differences between 3-levels(cont)

• Artifacts
• cost-effective, differ because adopted to
  size, structure of system)
• - Organism clothes (boundary), wheel (motor),
  bed (support), computer (decider), typewriter
  (output)
• - Society railroads, buses, trucks, roads,
  airplanes (transporting matter-energy, people),
  postal, telephone, network
• - Supranational border defenses, communication
  satellites

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Differences between 3-levels(cont)

• Scientific knowledge about each level
• - Organism
• how information is processed through organism
  nervous systems
• how and where input information elicits
  learning and is stored in memory and retrieved
• - Society abstracted system concepts
• - Supranational decider, little matter-energy
  processing

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Remarks

• To understand system, know structures and process
  in-out, between system
• Importance of size, complexity and emergents
• A little change of one part makes big difference

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Reference

• Living Systems, Miller, 1978, McGraw-hill