@article{education2019716,
author={Janecka, Ivo P.},
title={Systems Science Guidelines for Optimal Sustainability: A Framework for Life},
journal={American Journal of Educational Research},
volume={7},
number={1},
pages={33--43},
year={2019},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/7/1/6},
issn={2327-6150},
abstract={<b>Introduction</b><b>: </b>Life has an unprecedented historic record of favorably sustaining itself; humans are best to be in synch with its cycles. This study searched for key determinants of biologic systems sustainability. <b>Material/Method</b><b>: </b>Public domain records from the 1960s were selected for the study. Systems Science and the Dynamic Systems Model methodologies were used as they offer a complementary perspective on examining sustainability. <b>Results/Conclusions</b><b>: </b>Sustainability is related to the way systems deal with transformation, individually and collectively; when present, sustainability is the output, the emergence, of an optimized system. In order for a biologic system to create healthy emergence, it first needs to select optimizing attractors for its sensory processing from the existing field of awareness; second, the sensory perception that follows, must engage the collaboration of 3-D hippocampal memory and an optimized executive prefrontal cortex; an alternate, though unhealthy, pathway does exist, when sensory input is processed through the reward centers of the neuro-net and ends in the prefrontal cortex that is in a state of a dysexecutive syndrome.},
doi={10.12691/education-7-1-6}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}