Meta-systems have several definitions. In general, they link the concepts "system" and "meta-".

According to this vague indication, we may assume that meta-systems or metasystems are systems composed of the common properties of a large class of systems.

For example, a mathematical modeling rule system for a domain D, is a meta-system for the concrete models of this domain.

In economics

Meta-systems are like what Bataille calls General Economies as opposed to the Restricted Economies of Systems. Meta-systems are the inverse of systems.

A book about the difference between General and Restricted economies is Complementarity by Arkady Plotnitsky. In this case "meta" is defined as what is beyond: the meta-system is what lies beyond the system.

Meta-systems refer to contexts, milieux, situations, ecosystems, environments surrounding a system which the system must interact with in order to remain viable. Meta-systems have a different structure (are complementary to) the structure of systems. Without this complementarity in tact the system could not remain viable or operate.

External links

• Metasystem Transition Theory
• Reflexive Autopoietic Systems Theory
• New Paradigms of Meta-System Engineering- Adam Maria Gadomski, 1999, ENEA's Server.

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