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Regulating conflict in the temporal dimension

September 20, 2018 Carlton Clark

Systems have developed ways of managing conflict. For instance, a psychic system may experience conflict when incompatible desires arise at … More

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System Horizons: The world is an endless world

November 4, 2017 Carlton Clark

The boundary separating system and environment is not like a physical, spatial boundary that can looked across or traveled across. It is more accurately described as a horizon, and horizons are ever-receding.

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