Animal growth can be considered as a result of a counteraction of synthesis and destruction, of the anabolism and catabolism of the building material… - Ludwig von Bertalanffy

It is an empirical rule that living, evolutionary, psychological, social, etc., systems tend toward increasing differentiation and organization.

The general notion in communication theory is that of information. In many cases, the flow of information corresponds to a flow of energy, e.g. if light waves emitted by some objects reach the eye or a photoelectric cell, elicit some reaction of the organism or some machinery, and thus convey information.

Today our main problem is that of organized complexity. Concepts like those of organization, wholeness, directiveness, teleology, control, self-regulation, differentiation and the like are alien to conventional physics. However, they pop up everywhere in the biological, behavioural and social sciences, and are, in fact, indispensable for dealing with living organisms or social groups. Thus, a basic problem posed to modern science is a general theory of organization.