After nearly eight years of writing, the book realizes a new generalization and development of pansystems theory tapped by the author which combines post‐modern systems thought, pan‐metaphysics, pan‐relativity, generalized fractals theory, meta‐philosophy and non‐philosophy, scientific methodology, mathematics, technology, literature/aesthetics/poetics, sociology, history into a unified entity.
The book consists of five chapters, six classes of drawings, 450 poems and a long preface with nature of philosophical comprehension. Certain new explorations after the author’s former works (about ten books, 300 papers) are developed in the book, including a lot surpassing the books of the author: The Pansystems View of the World (Press of Chinese People University, 1990, pp. 1‐316), Pansystems Methodology (Press of Yanbian University, 1989, pp. 1‐384), Pansystems Theory and Mathematical Methods (Press of Jiangsu Education, 1990, pp. 1‐122), Approximation‐Transforming Theory and Pansystems Concepts in Mathematics (Press of Hunan Science and Technology, 1984, pp. 1‐416), Pansystems: A Philosophy Unconforming to God’s Model (Wuhan Press, 1996, pp. 1‐473) etc. The emphasis of the book is on the new framework of pansystems theory and its new refined epitome, especially including the new development of pansystems relativity, pansystems philosophy, pansystems aesthetics, pansystems poetics, pansystems theory on history and pansystems technology of creation. The concrete topics concern many items: mathematics, relativity, cybernetics, intelligence science, computer science, linguistics, operations research, Buddhism, Daoism, anthropology, creation technology, pansystems analysis on the doctrine of the mean and Confucius methodology and Sunzi’s theory on strategy, society paradoxes, theory on regrets, alienation theory, economics, ethics, aesthetics, poetics, sociology, history and philosophy, etc.
The contents of the first chapter “Pansystems epitome: philosophy and non‐philosophy” include: the perfect principle; panderivatives; the four‐mutuals; the five‐mutuals; the seven‐Yi ( the book of the change); the pansystems views; the main tendency of aesthetics; the pansystems view of methodology; panoptimizations; the eight‐comprehensions of pansystems; the five‐transformation method; the fast‐deep‐frequent principle; pansystems method (the big panoptimization method) combination method; the pansystems principles of green culture; supertalent strategy; pansystems song of movements; pansystems ideal realm; pansystems bidding law; layer‐index model; the regret principle; the synergetic strategies 36; the reality principle; the sinister principles; the pansystems strengthenings 30; the pansystems simplifications 50; the pansystems method of three‐variations; the pansystems strange transformations (1 + 1 = ∞); pansystems quantifications 12; panproduct principle of pansystems mathematics; pansytems Shengke model and its extended applications; the 20 pansystems; generalized systems; generalized hardware; generalized software; pansystems cybernetics (framework); pansystems egotics; pansystems philosophical anthropology; the five‐elements; the six‐respects; the 16‐items; the ten‐genes of fundamental demands; the four‐activities; the ten‐pantraffics; the five‐singularities; pansystems sociology; the multi‐meanings of pansystems badge. The other important part consisting in this chapter is the generalized relations of subjects/objects and prototypes/ panoptimizations which reveal the principles of pansystems relativity, concrete contents include:
Su Dongbo poem; Bohr complementary principle; Gongsun long theory of rigidity and whiteness; diagnosis‐treatment principle in Chinese traditional medicine; design of expert systems; life theory; artificial nature (artificial reality, virtual reality); thinkeology; Cartesian coordinate method and unification thought; Einstein’s relativity and unification thought; unification thoughts of various scholars; automation; Von Neumann’s thought; mathematics and pansystems mathematics; Kant philosophy; the 4 sorts of alienations; Hegel philosophy (reflection/ nachdenken/ feedback of thinking, self‐consciousness, alienation, idealism); Feuerbach’s view of man‐God; Marx’s economy philosophy; Carnap’s intensional logic; information theory; Shushu theory; tree‐searching model; C3I; Internet; Confucius model; Sunzi strategy; technical state management; Buddhism: the 4‐principles and 8‐methods; understanding the Dao of Dao‐comprehending with moving network; universal identity theory; Zhuangzi’s butterfly‐dreaming, etc.
The second chapter “I love pansystems, therefore I am” consists of 19 subchapters, including scientific reports, popular introduction to pansystems mathematics and pansystems transformation theory, pansystems history and society background from 1971‐1997, the clues of creative ideas in pansystems investigation, discussions and reviews of many famous scholars, etc.
The third chapter “Pansystems philosophy ‐ pansystems aesthetics ‐ pansystems poetics” includes further development of pansystems philosophy, pansystems relativity, pansystems aesthestics, pansystems poetics and pansystems technique of comprehension. Concrete contents include 12 models of pansystems relativity, ten subtheories of pansystem poetics and ten or more methods or techniques of creation and comprehension.
The fourth chapter“Pansystems poems 200: suffering love” includes 25 subchapters (220 poems and six classes of drawings) which provide special forms to describe the fundamental principles of pansystems and related stream of consciousness, subconsciousness, comprehension, history,creative ideas, feeling background, regrets, paradoxes, misunderstanding, controversy, suffering, struggle, self‐evaluation, surpassing, fantastic dreams, fairy stories, divergence and convergence of multi‐egos and multi‐subjects/objects, etc. The second, third and fourth chapters embody philosophical life of pansystems history connected with the so‐called Pansystems Dao or Pansystems Taiji:
(Pansystems Principles and Their Mutuals): Relative Empty → Relative Reality → Relative Perfection: z (1) Generalized Contradictory Equations with mega‐multi‐variables fi (2) Regret Principle fi (3) Panoptimization Principle (simplification, strengthening, relativitization, combination, transformation, n‐D pansystems viewfinders, pansystems quantification, equivalence, paradoxes‐tolerating) fi (4) Perfect Principle z → Over and Over Again: Alienation ‐ Modified Diversified Repetition ‐ Surpassing ‐ Development ‐ Negation of Negation:
As a generalization and the new base of further investigations of many tens of topics or disciplines, the chapter “Pansystems Star‐Sea” is a miniature encyclopaedia of pansystems theory consisting of 110 articles: 1. Pansystems; 2. Generalized systems; 3. Compound generalized systems; 4. Pansystems relations, generalized relations; 5. N‐ Dimensional spaces of pansystems philosophy, n‐DSPP; 6. Pansystems Taiji, Pansystems Taiji method; 7. The five mutuals of pansystems; 8. The six pansystems characteristics, combination method; 9. The seven elements of pansystems; 10. The eight comprehensions of pansystems; 11. Theory‐method; 12. Panoptimization and paninferiority; 13. Composition; 14. Set relations, set‐like pansystems; 15. Confined characteristics of binary relations; 16. Whole‐part relation, analysis and synthesis, wholeness; 17. Body‐shadow relation; 18. Equivalence relation, tolerance relation; 19. The pansystems views of difference, identity, panorder; 20. The pansystems views of quantity and number, pansystems quantification; 21. The pansystems view of infinitesimal calculus, panderivative; 22. The pansystems view of symmetry, pansymmetry; 23. The pansystems view of clustering‐discoupling; 24. The pansystems views of structure and function; 25. The pansystems view of mechanism; 26. Shengke, Shengke methods; 27. Series‐parallel space; 28. Generalized models of series‐parallel relations; 29. Controllability‐reachability; 30. Pansystems operators; 31. Systems with commonness and nearness; 32. Panvariation; 33. Panhomomorphism, panisomorphism; 34. Integrated pansystems, gene pansystems; 35. Quotientization of panweighted network; 36. Pansystems variation; 37. Synthetic panoptimization; 38. Duality transformation; 39. Hard‐soft panderivative, generalized composition; 40. Composition‐complement operator, panattractor, panchaos; 41. Panweighted recognition; 42. Theory‐methods of Noether type; 43. Pansystems frameworks; 44. Theorems of Dilworth type; 45. Fixed pansystems theorems; 46. Pansystems univalued theorems; 47. Pansystems communication theorems; 48. Pansystems analysis of motion‐rest, motion‐rest theorems; 49. The panrelation principle; 50. The four mutual principles of pansystems; 51. Panproduct principle; 52. Pansystems univalued principle; 53. The three elements of competition‐distribution; 54. Layer‐index model, bidding law; 55. Parental model; 56. Game model; 57. Pansystems automata, Wuxing model; 58. Panoptimization epitome principle; 59. Combination explosion, the five mutuals of bi‐explosions; 60. Pansystems discoupling principle; 61. The fast‐deep‐frequent principle; 62. Epitome principle of damaged information; 63. Pansystems holographic law; 64. Pansystems analysis of stratification; 65. Causality, causality‐panderivative analysis; 66. Pansystems causality analysis; 67. Pansystems clustering analysis; 68. Pansystems series‐parallel‐clustering analysis; 69. Exterior‐interior panderivative analysis, PS model; 70. Pansystems analysis of axiomatic systems; 71. Pansystems ecological analysis; 72. Pansystems analysis of generalized traffic; 73. Pansystems clustering‐discouple characteristics of architecture and city; 74. Equivalence theory of dynamics of electromagnetic media; 75. Pansystems annotation method; 76. Panderivative method; 77. Creation method; 78. The pansystems view of design, design method; 79. Simplification method, tolerance method; 80. Extension‐variation method; 81. The three layer method; 82. Epitome‐extended embodiment method; 83. Problem‐solving method; 84. Panring method; 85. Savour method; 86. The pansystems methodology 100; 87. The pansystems theorems 100; 88. The pansystems pithy formulae 100; 89. The pansystems views 100; 90. The pansystems models 100; 91. The ontological view of pansystems; 92. The pansystems views of content and form; 93. The pansystems views of relativity and absolutenesss; 94. The pansystems views of freedom and necessity; 95. The pansystems views of finiteness and infinity; 96. The pansystems views of time and space; 97. The pansystems views of particle and wave; 98. Pansystems indeterminacy; 99. The pansystems view of dimension; 100. Panequivalence theorems of electromagnetic media; 101. MSP‐transforming principles; 102. Approximation‐transforming theory and pansystems concepts in mathematics; 103. Pansystems methodology; 104. The pansystems view of the world; 105. Pansystems theory and mathematical methods; 106. Pansystems: a philosophy unconforming to God’s model; 107. Regret principle, The 10 Principles; 108. The pansystems view of perfect paradox‐seeking; 109. Pansystems: regret idioms 200; 110. Pansystems: regret heroes 100.
The book enriches the transfield multilayer network‐like nature of pansystems theory with the emphasis on encyclopaedia‐connecting research, and so forms a new type of methodology with the characteristics of pan‐metaphysics, philosophy and non‐philosophy: to set up a gradually realized prospective goal with multi‐respects:
Dynamical self‐surpassing and self‐sublating theory summarizing or generalizing encyclopaedic knowledge; cross‐linked multispan research, a theoretic multiple bridge; a wisdom‐enzyme, an intelligence‐catalyst, a thinking‐association‐inspiration accelerator.
Further important contents of the book reveal the clues, history, anecdotes, streams of consciousness, subconsciousness, intuition, fortune, controversy, misunderstanding, adventure, coincidence, fantastic dreams, chaotic paradoxes, suffering love, unsuccessful career, Pygmalion effect, creative experience and lessons of pansystems cause, including the knack of creation of many hundreds of new theorems and many tens of new theories. In a certain sense, the book realizes the ninth pansystems‐generalization to encyclopaedic knowledge and the summation of nine pansystems‐generalizations. In the book the theoretic development, popular science fiction, fairy tales, creativity methodology, undertaking history, pansystems dictionary are combined with reportage, literary creation and poetic emotion of self‐criticism, self‐negation and self‐surpassing. The contents of the book embody encyclopaedia‐connecting researches of a dreamlike adventurer, and incarnate a suffering love and fantastic dreams in chaotic paradoxes of a dreamer with multi‐egos ‐ a philosopher, mathematician, systems scientist and a poet.
