Huston, Jan Wayne; PhD
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII, 2000
POLITICAL SCIENCE, GENERAL (0615); BIOLOGY, GENERAL (0306); SOCIOLOGY,
THEORY AND METHODS (0344)
My dissertation creates a new sociopolitical paradigm. The paradigm is based
on my <italic>Theory of
Evolving Systems</italic>, the symmetrical way all major evolving systems—astrophysical,
biological, psychoneurological, sociopolitical, and technological—emerge,
self-organize, and
change. The dissertation is comprised of three parts. Part I develops the basic
theory of evolving
systems as a diagnostic tool for analyzing an evolving system's stage of evolutionary
change and its
options. Part II uses the features characterizing the emergence of prior major
evolving systems and
applies them to biological systems to create a <italic>Basic Migratory Framework</italic>.
This framework
is applied to business management systems to obtain a more <italic>Generic
Migratory
Framework</italic> applicable to human social systems with free will. Part
III applies the <italic>Migratory
Framework</italic> to the sociopolitical system to diagnose its evolutionary
location, define its generic
migratory options describe how it can pursue a higher level system, and provide
scenarios of the
consequences of not reaching such a higher-level system.
Social
Systems Simulation Group
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