World of Systems Models – Systems Literacy

Here are some examples of models, maps, and other representations of systems and cybernetics.

Please email me with comments, additions or corrections. Peter D Tuddenham peterdtuddenham at gmail.com

More detail:

Systems Maps Created using The Brain software. Compiled by Peter Tuddenham 9/22/2017 from various sources. Unfortunately the sources were not connected at time of compilation. Credit is given to authors when possible. Additions and suggestions please contact Peter Tuddenham.

Systems and Cybernetics World Created using The Brain software. A list of websites related to “Systems”

Streams of System Thought This is a map created in The Brain software by Peter Tuddenham and Marc Peirson that is based upon an original document called Streams of System Thought.

Some Streams of Systemic Thought KEY: (Draft update — May 2001) Originated in 1996 by Dr. Eric Schwarz, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Extended in 1998, including items from the The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant (1933).

Elaborated in 2000-2001 from many sources for the International Institute for General Systems Studies.

Tom Marzolf’s Systems Common Model July/August 2023

Tom Marzolf’s Systems Common Model October 2021 This is an ongoing personal project by ISSS member Tom Marzolf to map all of “systems” as he sees it. Updated to Version 5 30 Oct 2021.

What is new with V5.0:
-entry to main menu is streamlined
-menu is reorganized to emphasize views over elements; also many elements have been extended into views
-explicit request for comments is added (see upper right of menu); this includes suggested topics on which to comment
-rough hierarchy of model elements from left column is removed to avoid confusion (and control access)
-many items added
-Collection Views: Mathematicians
-Concept Views: DIKW Pyramid
-Courses: BFO
-Documents and On-line Documents: (many added); new link to On-line Documents on Menu
-Field Views: Deep Ecology, Systems Chemistry, Systems Geography
-Organization Views: Club of Rome, ISKO, ISSP, sLAB, System Organization
-People Views: Bailey, Dostal, Fleischaker, Grinspoon, Haken, Haldane, Henderson, Johannson, Maxwell, Metcalf, Muller, Otlet, Pangaro, Parsons, Priest, Rapoport, Rovelli, Shirky, Barry Smith, Ulrich, Wallenstein, Wells, A. G. Wilson, Woese
-Quotations: (many)
-School Views: Vienna Circle
-Theme Views: Coherence Fit, System-Parts Difference, Transdisciplinerians
-Theory Views: Conversation Theory, Overview
-Other: many added references to Wikipedia entries and other related on-line items, many fixes to broken links, etc.

Principia Cybernetica Web Authors led by Francis Heylighen
1 okt 2002 (modified)
Jul 8, 1993 (created)

Principia Cybernetica tries to tackle age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic theories and technologies.

This is the website of the Principia Cybernetica Project (PCP), an international organization. The Project aims to develop a complete philosophy or “world-view”, based on the principles of evolutionary cybernetics, and supported by collaborative computer technologies

International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics 2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access

Gene Bellinger’s System Relationships Learning Over the past 4+ decades of developing relationship models there have been numerous insights that would have served Gene well had he had them earlier along the journey. The associated relationship model is an attempt to surface those Gene found most beneficial along with thoughts about how they might be related. Note that each version of this presentation tends to evolve a bit.

Bruce McNaughton’s Systems Descriptions

Social Graph of Cybernetics

ISSS Primer Project

Please email me with comments, additions or corrections. Peter D Tuddenham peterdtuddenham at gmail.com