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It is important to clarify the concept of system. Although the systems theory has shown the generality of the concept of system, it has not gone deep enough to discover the generative nature of systems.
Translated from French by Magoroh Maruyama.
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Morin, E. (1992). The Concept of System and the Paradigm of Complexity. In: Maruyama, M. (eds) Context and Complexity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2768-7_6
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