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We live in a knowledge society, everybody needs a clear and narrow
specialization to know something, at least. There are about one
hundred thousand professions. Specialization is becoming so exaggerated,
as Ludwig von Bertalanffy has feared decades ago. The way out is
adding to the professional knowledge the one of inter-disciplinary
creative co-operation of mutually different and therefore interdependent
and complementary specialists. This capacity can be well based on
systems theory reaching beyond the description of complex natural,
technical, social, and human features, processes, events, and attributes,
beyond its application inside single traditional sciences. They
are all remaining crucial, but no way sufficient. They can benefit
a lot from systemic thinking and systems theory backing it, both
alone and in inter-disciplinary co-operation, without which holism
can be fictitious or, at least, far away from the vision of L. V.
Bertalanffy. He warned: humans either behave as citizens of the
entire world and consider the entire biosphere or perish. We need
ways to come close to his vision, the natural disasters caused by
human one-sidedness tell us.
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