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There is no problem too complex or too big that cannot be simply solved by human imagination and willpower. There is no problem too small or insignificant that it cannot be related to a larger systems framework in a meaningful way.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy proposed the principle of equi-finality as an alternative to analytical causality in systems explanation. Equi-finality represents the tendencies for different complex systems, beginning in alternate start states, to reach dynamic equilibrium in similar steady and stable configurations. There is a teleological inevitability of progressive development of human systems upon earth, if prerequisite conditions of human survival and adaptation are to be met in a sustained and long term structure. In other words, the skyline of the future has a predictable profile as the result of streamlining convergence of common solutions to common predicaments that human systems encounter. Lewis-works represents the first corporate system based upon the realization of principles of equi-finality in human systems, which will be expressed in terms of the integration of distributed meta-systems.

The meta-systems model is used as the basis for the alternative development and reglobalization of human systems and the redefinition of the relationship of these systems with the natural world they inhabit. This model can be said to be conceived in the framework of a Grand Strategy that is a value strategy rather than one that is based upon the threat and use of force. Hence, it provides the basis for building a world that is more peaceful and productive in a stable way than we have when our policies of state and decision making in regard to an international framework is based upon the designs of Force Strategies. It is recognized increasingly that the cost of total modern warfare is so great as to be essentially unaffordable, even for the wealthiest of modern nation states. Because anything but very limited modern warfare is no longer a viable option, human communities must seek and discover other ways of relating to and dealing with one another based upon mutual value, tolerance and symbiosis. The rise of global circumscription of human populations and systems further requires that human communities behave in a manner that is more responsible and responsive to its earthbound environments, and this is another important constraining factor in the shift now away from reliance on war and the threat of violence in the perpetration of policy, and toward the organization for constructive peace. Human beings in social groups can be persuaded to not resort to making war on other groups when and if the risks of doing so are too great and the potential losses of waging war are greater than the promise of success. Human beings will quit their organized violence only when they are no longer able to be symbolically manipulated and controlled by the threat of violence themselves.

Lewis-Works provides a common framework for metasystems development and integration across the board of aspects and areas of human concern and involvement. The organization and design of the Lewis-Works framework has deliberately broken with many conventional models guiding business and institutional structure in the contemporary world system, and attempts to maximize the potential afforded by the development of new information and communication technologies and the design of alternative knowledge-based working systems.

Lewis-Works is the comprehensive framework providing integrated and applied solutions and implementation strategies for the articulation of our objectives and long-range goals. This web-page is the starting point and focal center of our entire framework as it has been articulated on the World Wide Web.

We are busy with many different projects and systems in the Lewis Works framework, and we push the framework forward on a fairly broad front. These systems and their many subsystems and related spinoff project lines are becoming increasingly integrated into a single "metasystem" framework. Lewis Works is really a core framework around which a larger extended and corporate structure is being elaborated, represented by the Omniprise.net websystem. There is in this a functional division of labor as well as a developmental stratification of systems at different levels of organizational articulation. We have dispensed almost completely with formal frameworks of systems-based organization, though we have sought to maintain a formal theoretical and conceptual handle on the functional dynamics and structures that emerge from this development.

Lewis Works was originally organized as the basis for a conceptual exploration of alternative systems and their articulatory frameworks. This progressed into planning boards at all levels and into the articulation of this web-based framework by which the concepts and ideas could be further explored, expressed and broadly communicated in the world. The aim of the framework remains to develop by whatever means available and possible actual working structures and contexts for alternative development. This proceeds gradually across a broad level of interest and involvement.

Lewis- Works systems are tied to the application of natural and general systems theory in the form of the design development of a central integrated/distributed meta-system that provides comprehensive and efficacious solutions to the multifaceted and complex problems of human survival, human society, and human-based science within an earthbound framework. It seeks the systematic extension and application of theoretical and working models to the solution of real world problems sets through the development of cybernetic control structures, automated networks and dynamic feedback systems

We have adopted a project based approach to systems design and development, and we have gradually shifted over toward hands-on applied solutions to real world problem sets as demonstration models for larger-scale applications and for experimental proto-typing of alternative design solutions.

Lewis-Works is a systems-based business and non-profit framework with a strategic interest in promoting alternative human development in the world. We have consolidated and organized a broad range of resources for internet-working & computer based systems development, business development, publication, production and construction projects, scientific research & alternative systems design Development.

Simply said, Lewis Works is a general problem solving framework for all kinds of possible or real problems. If we can imagine Hugh's magical mystery box, any question we put to it, we can derive a correct answer from it. Feed the box with any kind of input, and shake it around the table, and it will output what we want from it. The problems we deal with currently are mainly conceptual, theoretical and methodological, but our means for dealing with specific and workable solutions of all kinds are increasing by the day. Most importantly, not only is this framework comprehensive, but it remains rooted and centered by the primary process of creative and heuristic exploration in a human approach to problem solving, bolstered as this is by careful analysis, empirical research, and the development of specialized expertise and experience.

Lewis Works can be simply described as a think tank built upon a systems framework. The recent history of academic disenfranchisement of American intelligentsia has provided a windfall of big brains at low cost that beats flipping hamburgers for a career any day of the week. This framework permits a degree of latitude and integration not normally achieved in conventional academic or other bureaucratically defined contexts. Thus, this framework is powerful in terms of its creative, inventive, heuristic and productive capacities. It is a truly comprehensive framework that recognizes no insurmountable boundaries between forms of knowledge or the applicability of knowledge to real world problem sets. We have thus achieved an unprecedented degree of cross-disciplinary integration between many otherwise disparate fields of knowledge. Though the problem sets and general problem of comprehensiveness leads to a high degree of complexity in any direction that is pursued, solutions that are "simplificing" permit continuing integration and resolution of problem sets upon increasingly specialized levels of articulation. Our project-based approach to applied specialized systems enables us to consistently design low-cost, high-gain solutions to a wide variety of complex issues.


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There is a teleological inevitability of progressive development of human systems upon earth, if prerequisite conditions of human survival and adaptation are to be met in a sustained and long term structure. In other words, the skyline of the future has a predictable profile as the result of streamlining convergence of common solutions to common predicaments that human systems encounter. Lewis-works represents the first corporate system based upon the realization of principles of equi-finality in human systems, which will be expressed in terms of the integration of distributed meta-systems. The meta-systems model is used as the basis for the alternative development and reglobalization of human systems and the redefinition of the relationship of these systems with the natural world they inhabit. This model can be said to be conceived in the framework of a Grand Strategy that is a value strategy rather than one that is based upon the threat and use of force. Hence, it provides the basis for building a world that is more peaceful and productive in a stable way than we have when our policies of state and decision making in regard to an international framework is based upon the designs of Force Strategies. It is recognized increasingly that the cost of total modern warfare is so great as to be essentially unaffordable, even for the wealthiest of modern nation states. Because anything but very limited modern warfare is no longer a viable option, human communities must seek and discover other ways of relating to and dealing with one another based upon mutual value, tolerance and symbiosis. The rise of global circumscription of human populations and systems further requires that human communities behave in a manner that is more responsible and responsive to its earthbound environments, and this is another important constraining factor in the shift now away from reliance on war and the threat of violence in the perpetration of policy, and toward the organization for constructive peace. Human beings in social groups can be persuaded to not resort to making war on other groups when and if the risks of doing so are too great and the potential losses of waging war are greater than the promise of success. Human beings will quit their organized violence only when they are no longer able to be symbolically manipulated and controlled by the threat of violence themselves. Lewis-Works provides a common framework for metasystems development and integration across the board of aspects and areas of human concern and involvement. The organization and design of the Lewis-Works framework has deliberately broken with many conventional models guiding business and institutional structure in the contemporary world system, and attempts to maximize the potential afforded by the development of new information and communication technologies and the design of alternative knowledge-based working systems. Lewis-Works is the comprehensive framework providing integrated and applied solutions and implementation strategies for the articulation of our objectives and long-range goals. This web-page is the starting point and focal center of our entire framework as it has been articulated on the World Wide Web. We are busy with many different projects and systems in the Lewis Works framework, and we push the framework forward on a fairly broad front. These systems and their many subsystems and related spinoff project lines are becoming increasingly integrated into a single "metasystem" framework. Lewis Works is really a core framework around which a larger extended and corporate structure is being elaborated, represented by the Omniprise.net websystem. There is in this a functional division of labor as well as a developmental stratification of systems at different levels of organizational articulation. We have dispensed almost completely with formal frameworks of systems-based organization, though we have sought to maintain a formal theoretical and conceptual handle on the functional dynamics and structures that emerge from this development. Lewis Works was originally organized as the basis for a conceptual exploration of alternative systems and their articulatory frameworks. This progressed into planning boards at all levels and into the articulation of this web-based framework by which the concepts and ideas could be further explored, expressed and broadly communicated in the world. The aim of the framework remains to develop by whatever means available and possible actual working structures and contexts for alternative development. This proceeds gradually across a broad level of interest and involvement. Lewis- Works systems are tied to the application of natural and general systems theory in the form of the design development of a central integrated/distributed meta-system that provides comprehensive and efficacious solutions to the multifaceted and complex problems of human survival, human society, and human-based science within an earthbound framework. It seeks the systematic extension and application of theoretical and working models to the solution of real world problems sets through the development of cybernetic control structures, automated networks and dynamic feedback systems We have adopted a project based approach to systems design and development, and we have gradually shifted over toward hands-on applied solutions to real world problem sets as demonstration models for larger-scale applications and for experimental proto-typing of alternative design solutions. Lewis-Works is a systems-based business and non-profit framework with a strategic interest in promoting alternative human development in the world. We have consolidated and organized a broad range of resources for internet-working & computer based systems development, business development, publication, production and construction projects, scientific research & alternative systems design Development. Simply said, Lewis Works is a general problem solving framework for all kinds of possible or real problems. If we can imagine Hugh's magical mystery box, any question we put to it, we can derive a correct answer from it. Feed the box with any kind of input, and shake it around the table, and it will output what we want from it. The problems we deal with currently are mainly conceptual, theoretical and methodological, but our means for dealing with specific and workable solutions of all kinds are increasing by the day. Most importantly, not only is this framework comprehensive, but it remains rooted and centered by the primary process of creative and heuristic exploration in a human approach to problem solving, bolstered as this is by careful analysis, empirical research, and the development of specialized expertise and experience. Lewis Works can be simply described as a think tank built upon a systems framework. The recent history of academic disenfranchisement of American intelligentsia has provided a windfall of big brains at low cost that beats flipping hamburgers for a career any day of the week. This framework permits a degree of latitude and integration not normally achieved in conventional academic or other bureaucratically defined contexts. Thus, this framework is powerful in terms of its creative, inventive, heuristic and productive capacities. It is a truly comprehensive framework that recognizes no insurmountable boundaries between forms of knowledge or the applicability of knowledge to real world problem sets. We have thus achieved an unprecedented degree of cross-disciplinary integration between many otherwise disparate fields of knowledge. Though the problem sets and general problem of comprehensiveness leads to a high degree of complexity in any direction that is pursued, solutions that are "simplificing" permit continuing integration and resolution of problem sets upon increasingly specialized levels of articulation. Our project-based approach to applied specialized systems enables us to consistently design low-cost, high-gain solutions to a wide variety of complex issues.