ABSTRACT
The breadth and diversity the vast amount of the literature on systems science and engineering covers point to a golden opportunity for the next development stage of the systems movement. By comparing the origin where numbers are from and the places systems are seen, this chapter establishes a reason for the 2-dimensional landscape of knowledge. By pointing to the advantage of the additional dimension, it is shown that because of the maturing development of systems research, some age-old problems that have challenged mankind for thousands of years can now hopefully be resolved. After introducing the systemic yoyo model as the common intuition and playground for general systems thinking and reasoning, this chapter looks at how even at the ground root level, traditional science has purposefully ignored the internal structures of objects it studies. That is, to successfully employ numbers and quantities, systemhood has to be ignored. However, the natural world consists mainly of structures and organizations, that is, systems, so that systems researchers should start working on improving almost all, if not all, the basic concepts and elementary procedures of traditional science so that problems of systemhood can be effectively addressed.
