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The general consulting model we have developed through natural and applied systems theory is adaptable to a very wide range of problem-sets, situations and complex phenomenal configurations that occur in the real world.  This general consulting model informs the organizational framework of Lewis-Works at every level and in every department and division, and constitutes the basis for the comprehensive integration of all forms of knowledge, scientifically centered, at all levels of its articulation. The general metasystems model, as a consulting framework, provides an operational methodology and organizational strategy to general problem solving applicable to all real or ideal systems, and hence constitutes a major paradigm for the comprehensive unification of the sciences.</div> <bR> <div> This <A HREF="id84.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="General Metasystem Model"><U>general metasystems model</U></A> provides us a template for adapting the Lewis-Works framework to a wide range of areas of knowledge application. From a human systems standpoint, and the standpoint of the anthropological relativity of knowledge, by definition all systems are intrinsic knowledge systems, comprising symbolic statements and representations of phenomenologically experienced, behaviorially ordered patterns that occur in reality and that are comprehensibly meaningful or significant by selective or comparative analytical criteria or synthetic frames of reference.</div> <bR> <div> Simply put, Lewis-Works is about the comprehension, observation, exploration and experimental research and design development of alternative applied knowledge systems of many kinds, and the general integration of human-made systems into a single meta-systemic framework. Lewis-Works represents a metasystems framework, or a system of systems that is also a working system with larger systemic structures. Lewis-Works has developed rapidly in the first stage, and has emerged after four and a half years as a full-blown organizational framework designed to help meet the informational requirements of alternative sustainable global development in the 21st Century.</div> <bR> <div> If we ask ourselves, what will the world be like in a half century or a century from now, and we attempt to half answer such a question in a serious manner by systematically extrapolating the trends today to their logical and natural consequences, then we arrive at the central purpose of Lewis-Works. Lewis-Works is fundamentally forward looking, and posites the necessary global development of an integrated metasystem that will become the basis for human civilization and long term human adaptation upon the earth and beyond.</div> <bR> <div> The grand strategic goal of Lewis-Works is to solve in no uncertain terms the general problem of long-term human adaptation. The specific methods, resource, tools and actions taken to accomplish this general solution set are the variable assets that are either immediately available, or that eventually may become available, and that by necessity and limitation define the operational constraints of the Lewis-Works system. How well these long range goals are accomplished by achievement of global metasystems integration via intermediate means of implementation, becomes the ultimate measuring rod for success of Lewis-Works within a metasystems framework.</div> <bR> <div> It is felt, at this time, as a consequence primarily of the knowledge revolution, that neither the goals nor the means to accomplishing these goals are unrealistic or unattainable or beyond the current means, know-how and technological capacities of contemporary human civilization.  Metasystems integration can proceed in a deliberate and coordinated manner, rather than by the default of unplanned and unintended development.  It is also believed that the primary obstacles to achievement of these goals are not the lack of available resources, but self-serving human resistance to alteration of the status quo of largely asymmetrical social systems. This prevailing situation sets in motion patterns of destructive violence that interfere with the consistent achievement of systems integration and progress in the world. Systems of ideological legitimization that are under the control and influence of a powerful global elite, are used to foster mass cultural resistance to potentially beneficial social reforms.</div> <bR> <div> The strength and power of the metasystems framework adopted by Lewis-Works and implicit to its own organizational structure is that it is capable in time of creating its own self-sustaining context that is largely independent of the structural ethos of the larger global framework in which it must operate.</div> <bR> <div> Lewis-Works is first and foremost a kind of knowledge system, but it is becoming as well a system of behavioral articulation and environmental feedback. Hence, in short, Lewis-Works becomes the thing it is most about, a system of systems, both natural in occurrence and human-made as a product of our constructive, creative capacities to augment reality. Furthermore, as an organizational framework in itself, Lewis-Works may also be said to constitute a human-made system within a larger metasystem, constrained on many levels by its larger metasystemic framework. Nothing that achieves sensible pattern at any level of reality can be said to be without a systemic structure that is ultimately, but relatively, available to scientific observation, description and abstract comprehension. Nothing that is available to our perception and apperceptive awareness is completely beyond the sphere of our influence to shape and change its pattern in some manner.</div> <bR> <div> Strategically significant systems can be said to be those that are considered most structurally critical to influencing the continuing processes of development occurring today in the world. Any system can be defined in terms of a formal structural model and a functional methodology by which such a system becomes articulated. Model and method interact cybernetically and inform one another in a continuous dialectical cycle of development. </div> <bR> <div> Any particular, delimited system in which we become interested can in reality be completely detached from the natural world in which it took shape and was created in the first place, and hence, all systems are connected to one another, however remotely or indirectly, through other systems. Our knowledge and awareness of systems comes through our selective preferment of a part over the whole, of the detachment from the total a piece, a fragment of evidence, that comes to symbolically, metanymically stand for the whole in our awareness. Systems in themselves are merely the idea structures that we bring to the patterns of our awareness of the world--they are not the intrinsic patterns themselves. In this way all systems may be said to be tacit or implicit to the patterning of reality, and only inferrable as the consequence of our own interactions with reality.</div> <bR> <div> Criteria for the selection of strategically important systems have been based upon the following 6-point platform:</div> <bR> <div> 1. What are the long-term consequences, both intentional and unintentional, of human developmental integration on earth that is the consequence of social growth and technological progress, and what configuration of alternative development might assure the long term survival of both anthropological and biological systems on earth?</div> <bR> <div> 2. What configuration of human systems would be capable of achieving long-term space-based survival without dependence upon the biological or geological systems of the earth?</div> <bR> <div> 3. What configuration of earthbound human systems would be capable of achieving long term earth based survival, in any possible area of the earth's surface, with least disruption or impact upon the earth's stratified spheres as a natural metasystem?</div> <bR> <div> 4. How might global integration of metasystems be teleologically achieved in a coordinated, step-wise manner, in the most direct and non-destructive way possible, that would accomplish the goals implied in problems 1, 2, and 3 above?</div> <bR> <div> 5. How can self-sufficient boot-strapping operations be planned, initiated and fully implemented in a developmental pattern that would accomplish 4 above, especially without significant resources or assets and especially against strong structural and social resistence to change in the opening periods?</div> <bR> <div> 6. What are the spin-offs, paradigms of possibility and expectable consequences from answering in a successful and consistent manner 5 above?</div> <bR> <div> The convergent answers to these six questions, in terms of real, applied systems integration in the world, in terms of real, achieved detail rather than hypothetical generalizations, provides the basis for alternative metasystem development and the central rationale and reason for being of the Lewis-Works organization.</div> <bR> <div> The potential of a metasystems framework is its comprehensiveness of design and the universal contextuality of its multiple alternative frames of reference that is capable of providing its own working frameworks for alternative development systems as well as the production and creation of alternative resources that are capable of sustaining and growing this process of development beyond the purview of any preestablished order or framework. </div> <bR> <div> A metasystems framework therefore requires reconceptualization and rethinking the organization and relations of our world upon a fundamental level. It requires foremost the reorganization of our conventional knowledge about the world in order to make things possible that were previously considered either remote or unlikely, if not completely impossible. Human flight was considered an impossibility by many, by conventional wisdom, until a couple of brothers who were bicycle mechanics proved everyone wrong.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <p align="center"> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> s="na";c="na";j="na";f=""+escape(document.referrer) </script> <script language="javascript1.2" type="text/javascript"> s=screen.width;v=navigator.appName if (v != "Netscape") {c=screen.colorDepth} else {c=screen.pixelDepth} j=navigator.javaEnabled() </script> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> function pr(n) {document.write(n,"\n");} NS2Ch=0 if (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && navigator.appVersion.charAt(0) == "2") {NS2Ch=1} if (NS2Ch == 0) { r="&size="+s+"&colors="+c+"&referer="+f+"&java="+j+"" pr("<A HREF=\"http://www.TheCounter.com\" TARGET=\"_top\"><IMG"+ " BORDER=0 SRC=\"http://c1.thecounter.com/id=515383"+r+"\"><\/A>")} </script> <NOSCRIPT> <a HREF="http://www.TheCounter.com" TARGET="_top"><img SRC="http://c1.thecounter.com/id=515383" ALT="TC" BORDER="0" width="88" height="31"></a> </NOSCRIPT>   </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>