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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 11: Poster Session

SOE 11.19: Poster

Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 18:05–18:45, P2

Causality & Stability: The Basis of Physics – Principles of Everything? — •Alexander an Haack, Paul Flachskampf, and Sabina Jeschke — Institute for Management Cybernetics e. V., Associate Institute of RWTH Aachen University, Germany

The basis for any physical consideration lies in the fundamental assumption that a real system behaves on the basis of cause and effect and always develops towards a maximum of stability: A System, residing in the stable state X will never shift without plausible cause to the otherwise adiabatically inaccessible state Y. Judging the importance of these principles, Helmholtz even is said to have considered their formal agents – the laws of thermodynamics – as “the laws of the world”. On the level of socioeconomic systems however, neither is their validity proven nor are their consequences systematically elaborated. “How correct” was Laplace’s famous assumption (“Laplace’s demon”) for example? Does the Heisenberg uncertainty principle have a practical effect on this level? As a first step in this process of enlarging the fundamental understanding of socioeconomic systems, we present our research on the scientific work of the past that has touched this specific question. Ultimately, our goal as management cybernetics scientists is to attain the ability to deduce well-founded and practically relevant insights on the behavior and development of real complex systems.