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"A system as a whole is not an object but a way of looking at an object. It focuses on some holistic property which can only be understood as a product of interaction among parts."

patterns.architexturez.netSystems Generating Systems | Architecture's New Scientific FoundationsThere are two ideas hidden in the word system: the idea of a system as a whole and the idea of a generating system. 1. A system as a whole is not an object but a way of looking at an object. It focuse...

7/5/25, 8:31 pm3 reposts4 likes

All-time great paper

I find this definition of "system" as an abstraction, i.e. something to help us reason about an holistic property, much more insightful than the more common definition: a bunch of physical components working together.