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There is an approach that I like and I think allows one to compress quite a few different description models from different domains. Take a look at this image from wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Systematik-Philosoph... You see "Theoretische" and "Praktische" philosophy in the rectangle with a diagonal which probably could mean that you can sort something based on the relation between matter and information, where something is more practical and less theoretical (say 30% practice and 70% theory) add a stimulus-response diagram at the bottom and various information-material circuits inside that allow you to show how something is transformed.

There is an development of this idea from some author which leads to something like https://imgur.com/a/AmF7AJe and currently the author tries to find the connection between syllogistics, Boolean algebra, Euler-Venn diagrams, and more. You can take a look at https://www.youtube.com/@Syllogist/videos Many of the recent videos have English subtitles It's hard to describe the whole idea at once, but maybe someone will have the courage to learn something from it.



This is the problem I have with any study of "systems". It all just feels like overly ornate verbiage for "hey, this thing kinda looks like this other thing if you squint". It's very difficult to distinguish that imgur image from complete Time-Cube-level quackery. "Volume (more than 3 points) <==> deep cause-and-effect relationships <==> trivalent linguistics (he gives the book to his brother)" ... really? Is this really helping humanity understand anything?


In some ways it’s my fault that I didn’t present it very well, but perhaps this should be taken less strictly, as something of a source of inspiration, like some kind of painting. Someone can then take it more strictly and make some kind of Curry-Howard isomorphism, or from the idea that the information concept of a file corresponds to the material concept of force, something in dimensional analysis can grow.

That is, it may be less formal at the beginning, but then a craftsman may be found who will do everything quite strictly.

Nevertheless, now this author is developing the theory of syllogistics and there are quite practical results, for example, that the logic textbooks for lawyers can be translated into boolean algebra and made more precise.




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