Transcendance, an essential concept for system and complexity sciences to spread out

Fusion of information and analytics: a discussion on potential methods to cope with uncertainty in complex environments (big data and IoT)

“…He presents a series of examples from the biological field where the recurrence of the same general mechanisms may be observed at every level of evolution (a kind of life model): "actions of pairs such as stimulation/inhibition, gene expression/repression, trophotrope/ergotrope regulation, information/catalysis, phenotype/genotype …". Highly relevant to this discussion on CPSS, Bernard-Weil [45] continues this way: " …when socially complex organizations and firms have emerged, the pairs of the life model, or their corresponding properties, are found again. … According to this concept, a social system, for instance, would reach an optimal equilibration between ruling powers and developmental trends, if self-organizational processes were introduced in its functioning.…”

“…The principles of systems transcendence and emergence impact greatly on the principle of composition for complex systems. Bernard-Weir [45] discusses the principle of transcendence and proposed points about the system's evolution that could be directed by "the concept of a task to be performed" (a sort of "blueprint") and stated that random causality and unpredictable unfolding may not be sufficient to explain such evolution. He states about the concepts of Self-Organization (SO), emergence, and the concepts of hetero organization and immergence.…”

“…Too much stress has been placed on the unpredictability and the novelty of the new states or levels that would emerge by virtue of SO." Bernard-Weir [45] makes reference to Agonistic Antagonistic System Sciences (AASS) for the transcendence versus immanence pair that proved its efficiency in various domains from biomedical to social sciences. He presents a series of examples from the biological field where the recurrence of the same general mechanisms may be observed at every level of evolution (a kind of life model): "actions of pairs such as stimulation/inhibition, gene expression/repression, trophotrope/ergotrope regulation, information/catalysis, phenotype/genotype …".…”