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Few words are as widely used in contemporary discourse as the term system .
This course investigates the fundamental principles that underlie this important way of thinking about the world. Topics include such as observation, definition, boundary, identity, relationship, process, stability, communication, information and autopoesis. A system is a collection of self-referential subsystems which interact with one another and with their environments. The parts of a system communicate with one another. The system has an environment with which at least one of its parts communicates.