"Mereology " can also refer to formal work in General Systems Theory on system decomposition and parts, wholes and boundaries ( by, e . g ., Mihajlo D . Mesarovic ( 1970 ), Gabriel Kron ( 1963 ), or Maurice Jessel ( see Bowden ( 1989, 1998 ) ).
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Laszlo developed the idea behind systems philosophy independently of von Bertalanffy's work on " General System Theory " ( published in 1968 ), but they met before " Introduction to Systems Philosophy " was published and the decision to call the new discipline " systems philosophy " was their joint one.
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Cognizant of advances in science that questioned classical assumptions in the organizational sciences, Bertalanffy's idea to develop a theory of systems began as early as the interwar period, publishing " An Outline for General Systems Theory " in the " British Journal for the Philosophy of Science ", Vol 1, No . 2, by 1950.
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According to Niklas Luhmann, this " theory of self-referential systems " is the second paradigm change in a " General System Theory " ( the first change being the " open-systems " or " systems / environment " shift, a step that initially separated " systems theory " from the traditional " whole-parts " paradigm ).
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Laszlo's " great idea ", that made systems philosophy possible, was that the existence of a general system theory that captures the " patterns " that recur across the Systemics, who themselves capture " patterns " that recur across the specialized disciplines, entails that the world is organised as a whole, and thus has an underlying unity.
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Bukalov believes that the concept of information metabolism, cybernetic modeling and general systems theory extends beyond of psychology and sociology, and consider the relationship of technical information devices, and the types of information human interactions as operator with various technical and electronic management systems of major industries, including chemical, nuclear power stations, complex computer complexes with adaptive tunable to a specific operator interfaces.
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Family systems therapy received an important boost in the mid-1950s through the work of anthropologist Gregory Bateson and colleagues Jay Haley, Donald D . Jackson, John Weakland, William Fry, and later, Virginia Satir, Paul Watzlawick and others at Palo Alto in the US, who introduced ideas from cybernetics and general systems theory into social psychology and psychotherapy, focusing in particular on the role of communication.
