Homeokinetics is the study of complex systems, such as
universes, galaxies, social systems, people, or even those that
seem as simple as gases. The entire universe consists of
atomistic-like units bound in interactive ensembles to form
systems, level by level in a nested hierarchy. Homeokinetics
treats all complex systems on an equal footing, animate and
inanimate, providing them with a common viewpoint. The complexity
in studying how they work is reduced by the emergence of common
languages in all complex systems.
| Arthur Iberall, the
founder of Homeokinetics passed away on December 8, 2002.
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Iberall Papers in Ecological Psychology
Iberall, A. S. (1990). A Commentary on Kugler, Turvey, Schmidt, and Rosenblum's Ecological Approach to Motor Systems. ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2, 275-293.
Iberall, A. S. (1992). Does intention have a characteristic fast time scale? ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 4, 39-61.
Iberall, A. S. (1995). A Physical (Homeokinetic) Foundation for the Gibsonian Theory of Perception and Action. ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 7 (1), 37-68
Iberall, A. S. (1997). Nonlinear Dynamics from a Physical Point of View. ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 9, 223-244.
Iberall, A. S. (2000). What Makes Sammy-Samantha and
Other Mammals Run? A First Round of Closure. ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 12, 109-139.
Iberall, A. S. (2001). The Physics, Chemical Physics, and Biological Physics of Life on Earth. ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 13, 315-327.
Iberall Papers in American Journal of Physiology -- Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology -- Section R
Iberall, A. S. (1977). A field and circuit thermodynamics for integrative physiology. I. Introduction to the general notions. American Journal of Physiology Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology 233:171-180.
Iberall, A. S., Soodak, H. & Hassler, F. (1978). A field and circuit thermodynamics for integrative physiology. II. Power and communicational spectroscopy in biology. American Journal of Physiology Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 234 3-19.
Iberall, A. S. (1978). A field and circuit thermodynamics for integrative physiology. III. Keeping the books--a general experimental method. American Journal of Physiology Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 234 85-97.
Iberall, A. S. (1984). On the genesis of "is" and "ought". American Journal of Physiology Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 246 937-942.
Iberall and Soodak in Science
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A Course of Study -This version is for
Frames enabled Browsers.
A Course of Study -This version is for
Browsers that do NOT read Frames.
What is Homeokinetics?
- The
descriptive version
- The explicit
version
Examples of Homeokinetic Applications
- Some
recent publications (1985 - present)
- Earlier
keynote publications (1965 - 1984)
- A Homeokinetics Journal: Commentaries - Physical and
Philosophic
- Journal Index
- Vol. 1. No. 1
Society 1.1 - One Science
- Vol. 1. No. 1
Society 1.1 - Thermodynamics
- Excerpt from Vol 1, No.
3
Foundations for Social and Biological
Evolution
- Description
- Table of Contents
- A Primer of Homeokinetic Applications, in review
- Preface
- Table of Contents
Many people -- students, academics, professionals -- got their
first taste of a true general systems science from A. Iberall, Toward
a General Science of Viable Systems, McGraw-Hill, 1972. Now,
such interdisciplinary study is extended far beyond in:
- A. Iberall, D. Wilkinson, D.White (U. Cal. affiliation), Foundations
for Social and Biological Evolution, Progress Toward a
Physical Theory of Civilization and of Speciation,
CA: Cri-de-Coeur Press, 1993.
It will open your mind to real interdisciplinary study on a
physical science base for society, life, and the creating Earth
processes.
For further information, please contact aiberall@uci.edu or william.mace@trincoll.edu
or rdb1@polisci.ucla.edu
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