Fig. 38
3. Let's leave for the moment the problem
of automata and continue the discussion regarding a system viewed
as a linguistic logico-mathematical model of a structured reality.
We have shown that for an observer that could be the society,
a man, or a computer (artificial intelligence), the model is a
piece of information.
Reality, considered in its assembly as a ring
of the existence is not a system, since it is not completely structured.
The man, not being completely structured, is not a system either.
Universe without the living matter, without its contact with the
unstructured informatter, would be an open system (Fig. 39). The
Universe including the living matter, being in contact with the
unstructured informatter, is not a system. Society is not a system
either, and we have to pay particular attention to its contact
with the unstructured informatter. The mental world is constituted
from individualities, but it is part of the society and it is
not excluded for men's informaterial "lines" to reunite
in the "mass" of unstructured informatter (Fig. 40).
Fig. 39
Society representation in the ring of the
existence is justified by its more and more physical consistence
in our times, due to the increase of information processing, that
gives an organism-like character to society. The electronic computer
(artificial intelligence) provides a socio-technical
network17,
and its development may lead, as our level of knowledge increases,
to a new kind of contact, perhaps decisive, with the unstructured
informatter. However man, society, the Universe, are only quasi-systems,
they can only be treated as systems when we disregard their unstructured
connections. More correctly would be to call them intro-open systems.
It is a giant difference between an open and an intro-open
system.
Fig. 40
C. The openness of a system is regarded
towards all that is structured in the surrounding reality. The
intro-openness takes place towards an unstructured zone.
Henceone cannot confuse intro-openness for an openness.
According to our image about the ring of the
existence and to our whole experience we can state that:
D. Any system is an open system.
Ifunstructured relations did not exist, then we could develop an
iterative reasoning by joining up system after system, either
at infinity, or ending up with a closed system. Since we do not
trust a real infinite, but only a potential one (according with
the philosophical experiment), one could state:
E. In the absence of an unstructured zone,
a single closed system could exist (or an infinite system
if we were to accept the infinity).
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