ARCHIVES FOR THE SYSTEMIC SCIENTIST

Abstract

Accepting the proposition that computerized models are capable of addressing the complex, systemic problems which confound us, one is led to enquire whether an “International Library for Systemic Scientists” is needed, where could be housed retrievable recordings of any systemic scientist's computerized models. With such an archive, the credibility of each recorded model could be challenged and/or established via techniques which have classically been applied in the linguistic scrutiny and in the natural confirmation of printed scientific communications (models). This “International Archives” could then be accessed via telecommunications; computerized models could then be retrieved, scrutinized, and rectified expediently. This paper delineates techniques by which the proper control of the systemic scientist's communications (his computerized models) can be exercised. Perhaps then the inter‐disciplinary “boundaries,” which seem somehow to constrain the pursuit of our characteristically systemic difficulties, would tend to recede, since all systemic scientists would have access to all other systemic scientists' computerized models, much as we, as scientists, historically have had access to one another's models in the printed medium.

Citation

MIHRAM, D. and ARTHUR MIHRAM, G. (1976), "ARCHIVES FOR THE SYSTEMIC SCIENTIST", Kybernetes, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 35-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005406