towards Tao

In a long Western tradition drawn from the writings of Aristotle, through Kant and the Romantic movement, it was necessary to wait the 1930 to 1940 years for a first complete formulation of a systems theory in biology by Ludwig von Bertalanffy:

with his idea of open system (bertalanffy box):

where for the first time the internal processes of system are connected with the external processes of the environment, as is always the case in biological systems. The whole process is commonly called metabolism. Still lacks the basic concept of feedback that will be born only from years 1940-50.

«Thinking in terms of systems plays a dominant role in a wide range of sectors

ranging from industrial companies and the arms up

to the most mysterious topics of pure science ..."