SIG:General Systems Mathematics and Languaging
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The General Systems Mathematics and Languaging Special Integration Group was launched...
Focus of the General Systems Mathematics and Languaging SIG
SGSR (now ISSS) was established in 1956 in legal By-Laws which specifically included these stated Objectives:
- To promote the unity of science through improving communications among the specialists in various scientific fields.
- To facilitate transfer of concepts, laws, and models across disciplines and professions.
- To encourage development of theoretical models where they are lacking.
This high endeavor was and remains “science” based … where “science” means careful human analysis using vernacular languages of descriptions and identifications, and also employing its best symbolic language form … Mathematics.
By development and practice, Mathematics is recognized as a universal representative set of depictions and assignments accessible to all cultures and vernacular social languages. It includes computation, geometry, relations, modeling, logic --- temporal and spatial, theoretical and practical, potential and enacted, intangible and formative, intentional and unconditional, causal and acausal, the exact and the inexact, the effected, the possible, the improbable and even the impossible. It was developed to help match our experiences and conceptual interpretations of states and dynamics of most all the phenomena of the world, the universe and our engaging with existence in all its myriad instantiations.
The SIG also focuses on the coherence of AR and other SIGs in the ISSS. The last focus was on the Critical Social Theory perspective that some action researchers share with Critical Systems Thinking.
Chairs, Members and Reading Materials
Members
Reading Materials
Below are reading lists of seminal papers in AR as well as the latest publications in the field of AR from a systems thinking perspective:
This briefing doc analyzes a series of interconnected papers and excerpts by James N. Rose, focusing on the core concepts of the "Integrity Paradigm". This paradigm explores consciousness, information theory, and the fundamental nature of reality, drawing connections to mathematical principles like calculus and set theory.
Links to videos
Below are links to videos from discussion sessions attended by ISSS members discussing their use of AR.