Béla H. Bánáthy vs. Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Béla H. Bánáthy
1919 – 2003
"When it comes to the design of social and societal systems of all kinds, it is the users, the people in the system who are the experts. Nobody has the right to …"
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
1901 – 1972
Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy was an Austrian biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory (GST). This is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, applicable to biology, cybernetics and other fields. Bertalanffy proposed that the classical laws of thermodynamics might be applied to closed systems, but not necessarily to "open systems" such as living things.
"We find systems which by their very nature and definition are not closed systems. Every living organism is essentially an open system. It maintains itself in a …"
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