The geosystem for complexity:about totalities and the reductionism of the human by the natural
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Totalities, Geosystems, emergence, naturalism, reducionism.Abstract
The totalities areone of the main features of Geosystems studies. In the classical conception of V.Sotchava and G. Bertrand the geosystem is an objective totality. This is an expression of the conception of totality and naturalism from the science of the nineteenth century; referencingthe reductionism and difficulty of the study of the human in the model. However, the context of Complexity has emphasized the proprieties relationals about the conception of totality, and complementary between human and natural. The objective of this article was to discuss,in dialogue with Complexity, the geosystemic totalities and the problem of reductionism of the human in the naturalism. As a result, geosystemic totalities become relational and 5490144humans can not be seen only as "disturbing" and become integral in the internal relationships of the geosystem.
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