"With each technological ‘revolution’, more energies began to be accessed, stored, and used than had been in the prece…"

"In sum, the processes of evolution create initially comparatively simple dynamical systems on particular levels of or…"

"[ Technology is] the instrumentality for accessing and using free energies in human societies for human and social pu…"

"The new information technologies can be seen to drive societies toward increasingly dynamic high-energy regions furth…"

"The description of the evolutionary trajectory of as irreversible, periodically chaotic, and strongly nonlinear fits …"

"Progressively higher levels of organization are attained as catalytic cycles on one level interlock and form hypercyc…"

"Underlying the diversified and localized gross layers of ordinary consciousness there is a unified, nonlocalized, and…"

"As we have already glimpsed and will continue to discover, we are able to expand our awareness beyond the perceived l…"

"General systems theory is the scientific exploration of "wholes" and "wholeness" which, not so long ago, were conside…"

"Systems philosophy first must find out the "nature of the beast" This is the question of what is meant by "system", a…"