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integrative concepts GlobalDescription: 1. Relating to, involving, including, adapted to, distributed over, or extending throughout the entire world.2. The interrelated global system perceived as comprising a noosphere, a biosphere (or zoosphere or organosphere), and a lithosphere (or hylosphere), corresponding to the realms of human mental and cultural life, all physical life forms, and the rocks, soils, water, air and other elements of the natural inorganic environment. 3. The global ecosphere. 4. The international economic system of interdependencies. 5. Associated in mathematics with the totality of some system such as the symmetry, or the (constant or varying) deformation from symmetry, of any system as a whole. A global deformation affects all the parts of the system so that, when no disturbing factor is present, all the internal relations of a system are affected equally. The operation of global geometrical determinants (if sufficiently confirmed) expresses precisely the property underlying, or vaguely designated by: integrative systems, wholes, Gestalts, organicism, and the unity of complex systems. 6. The characteristic of interactions, relations or organizations which involve movements of information, money, physical objects, people, or other tangible or intangible items across state boundaries. |