"The more general a concept, the more widespread the invariance which it grasps; it tells us less about the individual peculiarities of a thing and more about what it shares with other things. In the systems view, if you want to know what is truly fundamental about a human being, you define him as a natural phenomenon or organized complexity - a natural system. If you then inquire what sets off a man from his fellow natural systems, you specify the many criteria which apply, first to organic systems as such, and then to man as one species of organism."

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