General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.
The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?
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