FLOWS and STOCKS 2)
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No flows can exist without the existence of sources supplied with stocks, renewable or not.
As to energy, the presence of a gradient is essential.
As to matter, the stocks or reserves must be freely available and renewable.
As to information, the "stocks" can be data banks, behavioral algorithms, acquired knowledge, etc… In these last cases, there is a curious peculiarity: The flow of information does not impoverish the sources.
Categories
- 1) General information
- 2) Methodology or model
- 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
- 4) Human sciences
- 5) Discipline oriented
Publisher
Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
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