Thursday, May 2, 2013

    Un dieu donne le feu
     Pour faire l'enfer;
    Un diable, le miel
   Pour faire le ciel.

TRACTATUS PARADOXICO-PHILOSOPHICUS

1	Postulate nothing: no observer, no distinction (e.g., object, event), not even dimensions (e.g., space, time).
1.1	Processes: consider changes (not towards the same), transformations (towards the same but different) or computations (changes or transformations in symbolic structures).
1.2	Recurrence: consider processes that continuously interact, changing, transforming or computing themselves.
1.3	Organization: consider a network of interacting processes.
1.4	Open Organization: consider an organization that does not close on itself so that it cannot maintain the activity of its processes.
1.5	Closed Organization: consider an organization that closes on itself so that any activity among its processes leads to further activity among its processes.
1.51	For the activity of a closed organization, “inside” or “outside” blend into “inside and outside”, leaving no room for “inputs”, “outputs”, “time”, or “space”.
1.52	A closed organization maintains its activity, but it does neither define nor maintain itself (its processes).

2	Organizationally closed organization (self-organized organization): consider an organization that recurrently defines and maintains itself.
2.01	This organization closes on itself so that its processes continuously regenerate the same network of processes.
2.02	This organization defines itself as a dynamically stable unity called Organizationally Closed Unity.
2.03	From the perspective of an organizationally closed unity, “inside” or “outside” blend into “inside and outside”, leaving no room for “inputs”, “outputs”, “time”, or “space”.
2.1	Self-organization: consider the recurrent regeneration of processes that allows organizationally closed unities to continuously change, transform or compute themselves, thus maintaining their organizational closure.
2.11	Since processes and open and closed organizations neither define nor maintain themselves they may only form, inextricably, part of organizationally closed unities.