Growth and Development: A possible systemic understanding

Abstract

Approaches for representing quantitative processes of growth for single systems are considered focussing especially upon logistic growth processes. Attention is then extended to processes of growth for complex systems such as Multiple Systems comprising components belonging to more than one system. Complex system populations of growth processes are considered in an attempt to gain an understanding of their growth. We consider in this regard various possible approaches for understanding development and its being an emergent property. We present some possible ways of understanding emergent development which can not be suitably considered as being reducible to the properties of sequences of processes of growth