Principia Cybernetica Web (C)

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Author: Joslyn, Heylighen, Turchin,

Date: AUG 1992

Scale

(isa): variety

(property-of): metasystem transition

(cases): high scale, low scale

Synopsis: The variety of subsystems which come to be controlled in a metasystem transition. A measure of the "external change" of variety in a metasystem transition. A metasystem transition is high-scale if the scale is > 1; low- scale if the scale is 1.