Meta-models

Liberation of Integration, Universality and Concord (Part #7)

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It is interesting that few 'meta-models' even attempt to handle the relationship between models. Each of the latter tends of course to claim some form of exclusive validity viewing any alternatives as heretical, sub-optimal, or distortions of the most realistic. It could be said that, in comparison with the ecosystem case, models are defined at the 'species level' and that few, if any, have been successfully defined at the 'ecosystem level'.

The 'species level' provides a distinct reproducible pattern of organization, whether in the case of species or of conceptual models. The presence of other 'species' necessarily gives rise to an inter-species dynamic which is associated with a logical hiatus, since there is a distinct logical discontinuity between any such species-level perspectives. As will be discussed further below, it would appear that the ecosystem level logic cannot be adequately contained or expressed through a separate logic, it must necessarily be modelled by the a-logical pattern of inter-species dynamics.