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By Gianfranco Minati, Mario Abram, Eliano Pessa

This booklet includes the lawsuits of the 6th nationwide convention of the Italian platforms Society. The name, Towards a post-Bertalanffy Systemics, goals to underline the necessity for Systemics and platforms technology to generalize theoretically thoughts regarding complexity (the nice enemy of Bertalanffy Systemics). with a bit of luck this objective will be accomplished by way of operating in an inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary model, utilizing systemic thoughts coming up from quite a few disciplines and from the unique, or Bertalanffy Systemics, to boot. The interdisciplinary nature of the unique Systemics and its energy of generalization got, total, by means of the truth that the issues and recommendations of 1 self-discipline develop into difficulties and recommendations for an additional. at the present time, the modeling and interpretation of multidisciplinary methods and representations makes more straightforward to acknowledge those interconnections. The context, although, has replaced dramatically. in fact, the problem continues to be to discover theoretical generalizations and purposes, even the place we have now loads of specificities, yet we all know little or no on easy methods to mix them. we won't, despite the fact that, easily substitute the previous with the recent, yet we needs to introduce options to acknowledge, symbolize, version and act on new degrees, combining a number of representations, features and emergence. in lots of disciplines this has been already performed, and necessarily good, in view that goals and tasks are good exact and orientated. The problem is to do it for Systemics, with the vocations of cultural and theoretical generalization. Examples of latest concerns brought by means of such theoretical disciplinary advancements, handled via many disciplines, comprise the examine of mesoscopic or middle-way point, of a number of and dynamic coherence, of equivalence/non-equivalence, of fractality, of networks, of non-causality, of non-invasiveness, of non-prescribability, of non-separability, of quasi homes, of symmetry houses, of topological dynamics, in addition to of quantum theories and ideas.

The convention used to be dedicated to making a choice on, discussing and figuring out attainable interrelationships of theoretical disciplinary advancements, famous as having potential basic roles for a brand new post-Bertalanffy Systemics. The latter might be capable of care for difficulties on the topic of complexity in a generalized way. during this context the inter-disciplinarity may still is composed, for example, in a disciplinary reformulation of difficulties, as from algebraic to geometrical, from army to political, from organic to chemical, whereas the trans-disciplinarity can be on the topic of the learn of such reformulations and their properties.

The Italian structures Society (AIRS) was once based within the 1996. The AIRS is a community of academicians, scientists, researchers and execs excited by Systemics. A partial record of disciplines represented is:

Architecture

Biology

Economics

Education

Engineering

Mathematics

Neurosciences

Medicine

Music

Philosophy

Psychology

Physics.

Previous meetings had as open teachers professors Arecchi, Haken, Klir, and Kauffman. The court cases were released as:

1. Minati, G., (ed.), (1998), lawsuits of the 1st Italian convention on Systemics, Apogeo Scientifica, Milan, Italy.

2. Minati, G., and Pessa, E., (eds.) (2002), Emergence in advanced Cognitive, Social and organic structures. Kluwer, big apple.

3. Minati, G., Pessa, E., and Abram, M., (eds.), (2006), Systemics of Emergence: study and purposes. Springer, manhattan.

4. Minati, G., Abram, M. and Pessa, E., (eds.), (2009), procedures of emergence of structures and systemic homes. in the direction of a normal conception of emergence. global clinical, Singapore.

5. Minati, G., Abram, M. and Pessa, E., (eds.), (2012), tools, versions, simulations and techniques - in the direction of a common thought of swap. international clinical, Singapore.

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The quantum constant for spike number-duration uncertainty has nothing to do with Planck’s constant, a new type of quantum behavior has to be considered; spike synchronization is a peculiar physical process that cannot be grasped in terms of Newtonian position-momentum. 2. The energy disturbance which rules the decoherence time is by no means kB T (kB being Boltzmann constant and T the room temperature), but it is replaced by the minimal energy necessary to add or destroy a cortical spike. 3 eV, thus the minimal energy disturbance in neural spike dynamics is around 108 kB T [29].

6). Each cortical neuron has two ways to modify its spike occurrence, namely, either coupling to other cortical neurons or receiving signals from extra-cortical regions. Let us take a processing time T = 300 ms, then, the total number of binary words that can be processed is PM = 2300/3 ∼ = 1033 . At the end of a computational task a decision center (called GWS = global workspace [23, 24]) picks up the information of the largest synchronized group and—based upon it—elicits a decision. In the perceptual case (A), the cognitive action combines a bottom-up signal provided by the sensorial organs with a top-down interpretation provided by long term memories stored in extra-cortical areas [25].

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