... on systems thinking – specifically, on the concepts of synergy, emergence, recursion and self-organization. Second, an approach is developed to help determine whether the efforts being made towards the SDGs can be expected to be effective (i.e., whether the world can hope to soon be a system that self...

... with laboratory experiments and shows why slaving principle becomes invalid. Keywords Blown-up, Lasers, Relaxation, Synergy 8.1 Introduction In 1994 and 1995, OuYang formally established the theory of blown-ups (OuYang, 1994; 1995), pointed out the blown-up problem of general nonlinear evolution models (see...