Systemics of Incompleteness and Quasi-Systems

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This book contains the proceedings of the Seventh National Conference of the Italian Systems Society. The title, Systemics of Incompleteness and Quasi-Systems, aims to underline the need for Systemics and Systems Science to deal with the concepts of incompleteness and quasiness. Classical models of Systemics are intended to represent comprehensive aspects of phenomena and processes. They consider the phenomena in their temporal and spatial completeness. In these cases, possible incompleteness in the modelling is assumed to have a provisional or practical nature, which is still under study, and because there is no theoretical reason why the modelling cannot be complete. In principle, this is a matter of non-complex phenomena, to be considered using the concepts of the First Systemics. When dealing with emergence, there are phenomena which must be modelled by systems having multiple models, depending on the aspects being taken into consideration. Here, incompleteness in the modelling is intrinsic, theoretically relating changes in properties, structures, and status of system. Rather than consider the same system parametrically changing over time, we consider sequences of systems coherently. We consider contexts and processes for which modelling is incomplete, being related to only some properties, as well as those for which such modelling is theoretically incomplete—as in the case of processes of emergence and for approaches considered by the Second Systemics. In this regard, we consider here the generic concept of quasi explicating such incompleteness. The concept of quasi is used in various disciplines including quasi-crystals, quasi-particles, quasi-electric fields, and quasi-periodicity. In general, the concept of quasiness for systems concerns their continuous structural changes which are always meta-stable, waiting for events to collapse over other configurations and possible forms of stability; whose equivalence depends on the type of phenomenon under study. Interest in the concept of quasiness is not related to its meaning of rough approximation, but because it indicates an incompleteness which is structurally sufficient to accommodate processes of emergence and sustain coherence or generate new, equivalent or non-equivalent, levels. The conference was devoted to identifying, discussing and understanding possible interrelationships of theoretical disciplinary improvements, recognised as having prospective fundamental roles for a new Quasi-Systemics. The latter should be able to deal with problems related to complexity in more general and realistic ways, when a system is not always a system and not always the same system. In this context, the inter-disciplinarity should consist, for instance, of a constructionist, incomplete, non-ideological, multiple, contradiction-tolerant, Systemics, always in progress, and in its turn, emergent. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Interfaces of Incompleteness (Giuseppe Longo)....Pages 3-55 First Steps Toward a Systemic Ontology (Lucia Urbani Ulivi)....Pages 57-73 Front Matter ....Pages 75-75 All the Shades of Incompleteness: The Interesting Case of Structure/Function Relations in Biochemistry (Alessandro Giuliani)....Pages 77-87 Sentences and Systems (Aldo Frigerio)....Pages 89-97 Does Systemics Still Need Theories? Theory-Less Knowledge? (Gianfranco Minati)....Pages 99-106 Front Matter ....Pages 107-107 On the Complexity of Baroque Music and Implications on Robotics and Creativity (Andrea Roli)....Pages 109-116 Music: Creativity and New Technologies. A Systemic Approach Towards Multimedia Project and Sound Design (Emanuela Pietrocini, Maurizio Lopa)....Pages 117-131 Architecture and Systemics: Performance Revisited (Carlotta Fontana)....Pages 133-146 Systemic Ontology and Heidegger’s Ontology: A Discussion on Systems and “Logos” (Elena Bartolini)....Pages 147-154 The Idea of Incompleteness in the Internal Realism of Hilary Putnam (Antonio Lizzadri)....Pages 155-160 Front Matter ....Pages 161-161 Are Dynamically Undecidable Systems Ubiquitous? (Marco Giunti)....Pages 163-170 A View of Criticality in the Ising Model Through the Relevance Index (Andrea Roli, Marco Villani, Roberto Serra)....Pages 171-178 An Example of Quasi-System in the Generation and Transmission of Electrical Power (Umberto Di Caprio, Mario R. Abram)....Pages 179-189 Front Matter ....Pages 191-191 The Psychopathological Process as a System of Dysfunction and Systemic Compensation with Top-Down Modulation (Pier Luigi Marconi, Maria Petronilla Penna, Eliano Pessa)....Pages 193-206 A Note on Variety and Hierarchy of Economic and Social Systems: The System-Network Dualism and the Consequences of Routinization and Robotization (Lucio Biggiero)....Pages 207-220 Information, Communication Technologies and Regulations (Mario R. Abram, Eliano Pessa)....Pages 221-233 Connections and Dissimilarities Among Formal Concept Analysis, Knowledge Space Theory and Cognitive Diagnostic Models in a Systemic Perspective (Eraldo Francesco Nicotra, Andrea Spoto)....Pages 235-241 Theatrical Organicism: Thoughts on Drama and System Theory (Francescogiuseppe Romano Maria Dossi)....Pages 243-245 A Need for “Systetics” (Giordano Bruno)....Pages 247-256 A Systemic Approach to Religious Communication: Case Study of “La Luz del Mundo” Church (Irune Medina)....Pages 257-266 Values for Some: How Does Criminal Network Undermine the Political System? A Data Mining Perspective (Roberto Peroncini, Rita Pizzi)....Pages 267-282 Front Matter ....Pages 283-283 Embracing the Unknown in Post-Bertalanffy Systemics Complexity Modeling (Rodolfo Fiorini)....Pages 285-294 The Problem of Functional Boundaries in Prebiotic and Inter-Biological Systems (Leonardo Bich)....Pages 295-302 AI-Chatbot Using Deep Learning to Assist the Elderly (Guido Tascini)....Pages 303-315 The Use of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Combined with Serious Games for Pathological Dependence Treatment (Natale Salvatore Bonfiglio, Roberta Renati, Eliano Pessa)....Pages 317-324 The Management Complexity of Hospital Psychiatric Ward: A “Small World” Approach (Pier Luca Bandinelli, Alvaro Busetti)....Pages 325-333 Natural Rates of Teachers’ Approval and Disapproval in Italian Primary and Secondary Schools Classroom (Francesco Sulla, Eusebia Armenia, Dolores Rollo)....Pages 335-342 On Some Open Issues in Systemics (Gianfranco Minati)....Pages 343-351