Full current version of qOSTW is available on the blog ppo.salon24.pl

Full current version of qOSTW is available on the blog ppo.salon24.pl. qOSTW is created in Polish. The developed issues have been published in Polish in the blog ppo.salon24.pl. The order of  entries is important so they are numbered for convenience. There are also drafts of new issues developed by me appearing subsequently. Drafts begin with the letter B (it comes from the first letter in "Badanie" standing for 'Research' in Polish) .Drafts I call approximations of qOSTW that reflect my current understanding of a given issue The draft may be partly wrong and incomplete, of course, because my understanding of the matter appears gradually.There will appear qOSTW texts translated into English on this blog (qostw.blogspot.com) - but unfortunately slowly.

What is qOSTW and OSTW?

Selected fragments of my answers to questions that I am asked by others, which explain what is qOSTW and OSTW:

1.

I treat qOSTW as a way to the goal: Pan (General)-Structural Theory of Everything. It is a huge and distant goal; maybe I'm able to realize it only partially.

I also treat qOSTW as a Holistic Structurology, perhaps a new science, which will provide ideas, questions, tools for a holistic look at the reality. It seems to me that the system analysis  or systems dynamics will be detailed subdomains of this new science. It may also be (occur) that qOSTW will be another way (method) of looking at the reality - an alternative one to the currently applied.

I do what I can do best thanks to the structural and holistic mind: a coherent network of concepts and definitions that describe the reality at the highest level of abstraction.

qOSTW is one model that is expanding. Ultimately (as a goal): it will be possible to look at everything through the glasses of qOSTW, to look at the world as one big network of systems, where the change within relation moves along the link. Ultimately, it will be a system of concepts that is internally consistent, interconnected.

qOSTW - provides a set of concepts for a holistic look at the reality, and eventually, maybe in several dozen of years, will lead to create a structural map of reality.

OSTW - the Pan (general)-Structural Theory of Everything or structural map of concepts for a holistic reality testing or a structural map of questions. Each definition of OSTW can replaced with a detailed question asked while analyzing a part of reality. The answer to this question will build the scientific knowledge of this part of reality.

2.

We have the science in two dimensions:

1.       Ready scientific results. These results are confirmed in accordance with modern methodology,  not always correctly.

2.       A process of creating a science, which consists of several stages, including:

• observation of the world

• capturing some regularities

• expressing the regularity into a formal language of definitions and theorems

• proof of these theorems with different methods

From my fortune I got a holistic mind. What I can see I express in definitions and theorems, and my life is not long enough to prove it; others can do it.

I had a choice: to get some scientific results and to prove them, or to create a coherent system of concepts describing the reality on the highest level of abstraction. I have chosen the latter, because only one person can do that. Others can complete and prove it. The core of qOSTW must be done by one mind, the holistic mind.

3.

The holistic mind is needed to create the core of qOSTW.

Non-holistic mind, capable to move between levels of abstraction, one can understand qOSTW and its significance, as well as learn to apply qOSTW.

I use qOSTW, because that is my natural way of functioning. Others have to learn how to use it. Others will run qOSTW  in the way they activate other intellectual technologies learned.

I think that qOSTW will be a useful tool for structural and holistic reality testing. It will accelerate acquiring skills and tools to cope with complexity. I’ve got it because I have had it evolved in place of the missing memory. Others have to learn it.

4.

The science explores the world piece by piece: this piece, that piece. The science does not explore the world as a whole. There is no conceptual apparatus to explore the world as a whole, in which we look at each scrap as a component of the network of dependences - this kind of a study brings new insights. qOSTW intends to provide some of these concepts.

Why is that? Our natural state is to study the details: atoms, photosynthesis. In order to explore a wholeness, it is needed to go up to such a level of abstraction that many of the phenomena, which our mind -  trained on details - recognizes as different, are seen as belonging to the same class. qOSTW soars to the highest level of abstraction, and therefore enables the study the world as a wholeness.

5.

What is OSTW (a goal, which qOSTW leads to) - in brief.

Imagine that you are looking at the skeleton of the world, you are stripping the outer wrapperand you can see the structure in all areas.

You can find structural concepts, which you are using as " bricks" to build a structural map of the world; on which you with a mouse (because in a computer) as with a finger you will be moving and encountering following, different structural elements.

Behind the same structural element of the map, in different areas of reality, there will be other components of the real world hidden - but they will have one thing in common - they will contain the same pattern - a structural element of OSTW.

The structural map or the OSTW theory (names used interchangeably):

·        Provides questions, where answers build scientific knowledge of a selected part of reality.

·        Enables a holistic view of reality, a bird's eye view. Thus reality appears as a unity of the distinguished elements creating a huge network. These elements are extracted by their role in the world. Links of the network are interactions between these elements. A change within the network is transferred along these links.
     
      6.I will use a metaphor. We have the human body (in our metaphor, this will be ‘All’). You can make different cross-sections of ‘All’ and describe them. One of such cross-sections will be the circulatory system, the lymphatic – will be another. Let's take a cross-section of the circulatory system. If we make a description of the given cross-section, then we take only the part that meets our condition out of the ‘All’; here: it collects or delivers blood. We create a grid of concepts (with definitions, theorems and descriptions) that appears in our cross-section in different areas such as: components, processes. This grid of concepts creates a general theory of the body in the cross-section of the circulatory system. If we want to create a special theory for the selected individual human being, then we shall take concepts from the general theory of and search for their counterparts in this particular body.

      OSTW makes cross-section of ‘All’ through the structure, determined by the change. Hence the adjective Structural.

      We have already illustrated adjectives: General and Structural. It remains to depict an expression Theory of Everything. OSTW will be something more than a model; it will be a theoretical description of reality at the highest level of abstraction, so I took the word Theory in the name.

      The word Everything remains. Why do I think that every part of multidimensional reality can be (after finishing OSTW) described using the concepts OSTW is a description of reality at the highest level of abstraction. The higher we climb through the levels of abstraction, the more items we can embrace with the concept. Let's take an example: Scooby, dachshund, dog, canines, mammals, animals, living creatures, systems. Thus, the highest level of abstraction will cover Everything.

      I am not attached to the name OSTW, perhaps in the future a more relevant one will emerge. But the name in the form: The General-Structural Theory of Everything is a goal that gives the direction to my creative activities.

A spiral of reality analysis corresponding with OSTW

Below we are showing the inclusion of qOSTW into an specific case study analysis; we will show its place while acquiring knowledge about the world. Why have I called this approach a spiral of analysis (an analysis spiral)?
In this method, we start from a particular level and we get back to it, using the abstract and the qOSTW level on the way.

Researcher’s steps (particular activities)	Tasks executing spiral’s step	Spiral’s step
Extracting from a group all specimen of the specimen subgroup that contain attributes interesting to us (e.g., isolation of sick patients with specific symptoms)	Noticing the problem (specific level)	Diagnosis at the level of knowledge
Defining classes by specifying constitutive attributes and the class name (Disease X manifested by a set of symptoms: M, N, T)	Location of a problem, immersion in knowledge (abstract level)
Defining of a subclass based on a distinguishing attribute (disease X, gene mutation AB)
Creation of the qOSTW matrix for the case.	Identification of orders and key positions, relations and major systems (qOSTW level)	qOSTW matrix
qOSTW substantiation for this case. A modified Y process resulting from the mutated component of an organism Z. What in qOSTW language means: modification of a system with significant position in the order, which has affected a change in the functionality of this order.	Identification of problems identified in the orders or identification of orders’ functionality, changes produced and stakeholders.	qOSTW analysis
	Translating the results of the qOSTW analysis into a language and concepts of the field where a considered a problem belonged to	Diagnosis at the level of knowledge (abstract)
Choice of therapy and medical operations, drug selection	Creating a solution strategy	Abstract level
Covering patients with a treatment agreed	Using the strategy	The specific  level

EXAMPLE - showing a fragment of reality by means of OSTW concepts

Lead Example: family and business

Family

We will consider two systems: a family and a business. We will show them through the lens of qOSTW theory. The energy unifying the family are family ties. The energy that unites a company is money. When there is no unifying energy the system breaks down.

The definition of a family is the ideal object. Classes specifying different families (full, incomplete, multigenerational) are ideal objects, precisely classes.

A specific family of 2+3 is a system. The subsystems are: a woman (Anna) taking the position of the mother, a man (John) taking the position of father, two girls (Ola and Kate) taking positions of daughters and one boy (Michael) in the position of a son. I have divided the children as sons and daughters because in the Indian or Chinese culture those are different positions related to different privileges, burdens and obligations.

Both legal and social norms as well as internal arrangements constitute the system. In this group of people within each pair there are different relationships. Some of these relationships belong to the order of the family, some of these relationships such as between the father and mother belong to other orders. In our family, besides family order, the man and the woman are caught up in two separate orders: a professional one and a sexual couple. The order of the sexual couple is an example of an order that coexists among the systems of the analyzed order and can affect it. If the order of the sexual couple is disturbed, it can lead to the family breakdown (destruction).

Within a family children can create a distinct hierarchical order in which an older or stronger child abuses a weaker one. Younger children may suffer as a result of involvement in this order, the child’s disease can negatively affect the family system.  In the lack of new patterns people implement old habits. In order to eliminate the hierarchical system, which destroys the family, may be needed to develop healthy relationships and rules between siblings.

A Company

We will also analyze the system business; for simplicity it will be a shop. Four people who are subsystems of the analyzed system will take positions: the owner of a shop (Anna), the shop manager (John), salesman 1 (Mark), saleswoman 2 (Ela). The constitutive order is determined by the responsibilities of each position and the rules of conduct between the positions.

Note that changes may occur in the positions occupied by the specific subsystems (people). A shop can be sold, then the new system will take the position of the owner. The manager may leave, then his position can be taken over by the salesman 1, and the company will hire a new person to the position of the seller or the company will employ a new shop manager. The new person can unreservedly accept the prevailing rules and continue to ambient relationships. She/he may also affect the rules’ change. Different stable states of equilibrium of a system shop will depend on the amount of money earned (the amount of available energy in terms of qOSTW). The increase in sales and the resulting increase in cash available may result in hiring a new salesperson: in qOSTW terminology there will be a new position created in the order that constitutes the system ‘company’ and it will be taken by the new system. The system ‘company’ will stabilize in the new stable state at a higher energy level. The drop in sales will reduce the amount of money in the system (amount of energy). So in order to get stabilized at a new stable state at a lower energy level for the company dismissals will be required. There may be a critical situation with too low level of energy, in which the company earns less than needed to cover costs - energy has fallen below the level of decomposition. The system will disintegrate unless it stabilizes at a level of energy thanks to continuous funding (providing the missing energy from the outside).

Note also that each new stable state may result in changes in the level of specific positions or relationships.
New stable state may affect the attributes of the positions: may change the amount of salary, job size, scope of responsibilities.
The constitutive order of our shop has a specific multifunctionality. Among its functions we can distinguish: delivering goods for the local community, workplaces, paying taxes (state maintenance), providing income to the owner, market for local producers.

Note that each of these functionalities, places our system ‘shop’ at a certain position in the new superior order, as each of these functions is the reason for changes in a superior order.
Note also that each new stable state of our system ‘shop’ will cause changes within functionalities experienced by the superior order. Lower income of a shop (stable state at a lower energy level) will cause lower wages, lower taxes, smaller orders from local manufacturers.
Relations binding our system ‘shop’ in superior orders are bidirectional. Stakeholders decisions will force changes in the analyzed system ‘shop’. The state can increase taxes, employees can negotiate higher wages, the owner may want to earn more, local community can begin to purchase in a hypermarket.

Family versus business ‘Shop’

Let us assume that the owner and the manager of the shop are the married couple from our example of a family. We are dealing here with two systems (persons), that both occupy certain positions in two superior orders: family order and professional order. There comes also the intimate order (sexual couple). The set of all relations from all superior orders that occurs between those people builds the connection between them. The connection exists as long as there is at least one relation in any of superior orders. When a sexual relation and family fall apart, there remain professional relation and the relation resulting from being parents of the same children.

Gang

It is need to emphasize the importance of the connection as a set of all the relations linking two systems and the need to recognize all the superior orders, in which the analyzed system is entangled in. This will be done on the example of a child belonging to a gang. The child (Michael) belongs to a local gang; belongs to a superior order that constitutes a gang. Parents want to get him out from under the influence of the gang keeping him at home in the afternoons or on extra-curricular activities supervised. They will not succeed, as long as all relations involving a child with the gang members are not broken. The child may have a sexual partner in the gang, the child can attend the same class as the members of the gang. Parents need to recognize all the relations and all the superior orders that link the child with the gang members. It seems that moving out and changing the school and the environment would be an effective solution that would enable to break all relations.

Family in terms of attributes

Let's look at the family system through its attributes. The attributes of the family will include: number of children, bilingualism, family income level, place of residence, social class, nationality and religion.
The values ​​of these attributes can be changed: another child can be born, parents can change jobs and revenues can increase, removal can take place, there can even be the religion converted.
Attribute values ​​affect the relation of the system with the environment. The number of children is related to the amount of tax deduction and child benefits, the new job may result in the opening of a new branch of development and open up new superior orders, for example, allow membership in a club. Place of residence is related to an access to new chances and the loss of the old opportunities. Religion conversion will affect changes in commitments and religious norms.
Looking at the system from the perspective of its attributes values it brings new information and new areas for the research of the system. Changing the attributes’ values ​​doesn’t need to incur changes in the constitutive order: in positions or in relations. Changing the attributes’ values may affect changes in superior orders. Learning another language by one of the subsystems ‘family’ (John) will increase the number of available positions in superior orders. In qOSTW we will say that for the attribute value ‘trilingualism’ there are more classes associated with the positions of various professional orders than to attribute value ‘bilingualism’. Change of residence will enable, , to have children attending a better school - by changing the residence attribute a new opportunity has appeared - the system ‘child’ takes a position in the superior system, which is a concrete better school .

Family order – research

Each order has its stakeholders. The family order serves:
• family members by satisfying their needs,
• State by educating and providing new citizens and taxpayers,
• teachers, as children help to keep their jobs.

Order components - fixed:

Positions: mother, father, daughter, daughter, son

Functionality: education of children (upbringing), peer support, sustaining relationships, a common household, company, relying on each other; 

Relations that build connections between family members (examples):

• parent-child: care (one-way), leadership (one-way), love ( two-way
• husband-wife: love (two-way), affection (two-way), sharing (two-way), support (two-way), joint financing of household, sexual relationship (two-way), common keeping company
• child-child: two-way: sharing, affection, love, imitation, competition

The components (elements) of the order - variable:

Systems: Anna (mother), John (father), Kate (the oldest daughter), Ola (younger daughter), Michael (the youngest son)
Note that even in the family those are variable components, as in result of divorce and mother’s re-marriage the system keeping the position of the father can change.

The dominant attributes of the component systems: Anna (pedant, complaining), John (muddler, applying the defense by attack), Kate (autistic), Ola (leadership features), Michael (scamp)
Dominant attributes of component systems will shape the behaviour between component systems, will affect family relationships and order.
Let's search in our family system feedback loops. Attributes pedantry and untidiness are troublemaking. John’s untidiness starts the loopback: John’s mess causes Anna’s complains, which contributes to John’s defense by attack, which causes Anna’a complaints etc ...

Let's see how this driving spiral can be broken successfully.

Anna’s complaining is her way for releasing tension, in case of abstaining from complaining about perceived the conflict felt could lead to the accumulation of tension and in further perspective to neurosis. John’s defense by attack protects him from understating his self-esteem, which Anna’s complaints cause. Reduced self-esteem could affect the resignation of challenges, which would result in lower incomes, which in further consequences would reduce the financial status of the family.

Let’s consider where there is an effective intervention point in this situation.
Untidiness and pedantry are elements of the natural personality, thus they undergo changes with difficulty. We have to find a different intervention point. John’s untidiness is in conflict with Anna’s pedantry and causes her complaining – maybe there can be something done to prevent complaints without the accumulation of Anna’s tension.

• John can compensate for Anna’s extra cleaning caused by his untidiness, for example he will take on preparing dinner.
• John can have his own room, where Anna doesn’t enter, where he can have things messed up.
• We can teach John healthy reception of Anna’s complaints. Creating such an attitude, so that he does not feel humiliated and does not need to run defense mechanisms.
• Anna can compensate for understating John’s self-esteem (caused by grumbling his untidiness) by increasing his self-esteem in other areas: loud admiration for his strengths and bragging valuable activities.

Network

Let's see how the network with imposed orders looks in our example. We have systems connected with links:

Fig.1. Network

On a node of the network occupied by John there are imposed positions of the orders analyzed:
• John takes a position of a manager in the professional order
• John takes a position of a lover in the intimate order
• John takes a position of a father in the family order
• John may take some other positions such as a member of a choir, we skip those positions.

On a node of the network occupied by Anna there  are positions imposed:
• Anna takes a position of the owner in the professional order
• Anna takes a position of a lover in the intimate order
• Anna takes a position of a mother in the family order

On a node occupied by Michael there  are positions imposed:
• Michael takes a position of a son in the family order
• Michael takes a position of a gang member in the order constituting a gang
• Michael takes the lowest position in the hierarchy of the hierarchical order occurring among children of Anna and John

We will focus on the above-mentioned systems and positions occupied by them.

On the link connecting systems: John and Anna we have at least three groups of relations imposed from three different orders, these relations will build the connections between them. We have the following relations:

• Relations in the marriage order (including intimate, lust, affection, commitment)
• Relations resulting from the fact of being parents of the same children in the family order
• Relations resulting from the fact of being subordinate (John) and chief (Anna) in the professional order

On the link connecting systems: John and Michael have a group relations imposed:
• father-son relation

Let's get acquainted with the significance of links and rank of knotted systems dependent on the situation. Significance of the link between John and his son Michael is greater than between Michael and his siblings, so as a standard Michael does not execute commands from his siblings, for which he wouldn’t get approval of his father. But once a situation has encountered that Ola told Michael to steal money for ice creams. In this situation the rank of Ola increased in Michael’s eyes, because it was strengthened by the reward derived from the behavior undertaken - ice creams. Michael went against his father and stole the money. Father’s rank in this case was lower than the rank of Ola.

Let us now look at signs of links. Let's go back to our situation with the theft of money for ice creams. If the link of Michael and Ola would have a negative sign (Michal does not like her because of her commanding), the theft of money would be less likely, and an option could happen that Michael would denounce Ola to the father.

We know that we have two types of links: bidirectional (bilateral) and unidirectional (unilateral). In the example herein discussed, the majority of our links is bilateral, since each partner within a relation has an impact on the other partner. We expect a unilateral relation in case of Michael’s relation with gang members, Michael does not count in the gang, thus while under its influence he has no effect on other gang members. Michael is not a significant system in the gang.
Part of links in the network creates feedback loops. An example of such a feedback loop could be the case with ice creams: Ola pushes on Michael to steal money, Michael complains to his father, the father punishes Ola, Ola takes revenge on Michael, Michael complains to his father.

Fig. 2. Feedback Loop

We will try to bring the concept of the situation on the example of ice creams. We assume that the mother Anna is in a sanatorium, so any links with her are temporarily disabled. In the situation of Ola’s prompting Michael to a theft there are active links between Ola and Michael, and between Michael and his father, because Michal was to rob his father. Ola has not confided Kate in her idea, so links with Kate are inactive. Ola is afraid of her father, so also the link between Ola and her father is active.

Fig. 3. Situation

Let's see Michael's position in the network against the object, which in the situation with ice creams is the father.
• Michael is the subject in the position .
• The target object is John, the father.
• The set of active relationships in the situation with ice creams is mentioned above.
• Active relationships of the subject and the target object is the relationship of a parent with a child that leads Michael to respect the opinion of the father.
• Ola’s rank here is higher than the father, because Ola promises the reward - ice creams.
• Significance of Michael’s link with his father is higher than the significance of Ola’s link with the father.
• The link between Michael and Ola is negative (he does not like when he is ordered), so he will not be willing to listen to Ola.
• A series of Michael's beliefs about his father in the ice creams case covers the fact that his father considers a theft as the evil and Michael can expect a punishment.
• In the situation analyzed Michael's main emotion in relation to his father is fear.
• Behaviours associated, resulting from fear: Michael avoids Father.

It seems that the position versus the object as a concept is not very useful, since it does not allow to predict clearly the behavior. In our example it seems that Michael will not steal the money. Analyzing the position against the object, however, has such a power that enables us to deeper understand the situation and active factors in order to design more effective intervention in the future.
How such the intervention might look like in the example discussed? The father anticipates that children can encourage each other to a theft. Knowing the position of a child to himself in a situation of a theft and all the active factors in a given situation he could take preventive measures:

• In terms of beliefs he could talk to the children that stealing is wrong, that it is not accepted by people that one can end up in jail for a theft, that he does not accept it.
• In terms of emotions he could trigger negative emotions in them against a theft by bringing them to a situation where they were robbed.
• In terms of behavior, he could sensitize them that a potential theft should be reported to an adult.
• In terms of significance of links, he could take care of the relationship with the children so that these links were strong
• In terms of rank, based on examples he could illustrate to children that situational rank of a person or a thing is only temporarily high, and they should not take it into account. He could teach the children to expand each of the situations by the consequences in the future, which usually reduces the situational rank.

qOSTW - Introduction (abstract of the fragment)

No subject exists in a vacuum. It can be expressed differently (in other words), that every object is connected to other objects with certain relations.

What indicates the existence of relationships between objects? The object connected through a relation experiences a change, where the source is the entry linked object.   A relationship can be bidirectional (friendship) or one-way –  only one object  in the pair tied by the relationship experiences the changes (a plant extracts its energy from the sun – experiences the change, which comes from the sun, the sun does not experience a change, which comes from the plant).

In the light of qOSTW the world is a huge network of objects linked with relations. 

Aside from the network, another  important concept in qOSTW  is a change. Why the change is a key concept in qOSTW? Without the change the universe would be still, where everything is fixed, determined, immovable. And such a world does not exist. Everything is a subject to change or may it be in the future. The change proves the existence of something; the change indicates that something disappears, the change shows that something new arises. The change is a signal that leads us to the source of the change. We need a change, we are afraid of a change, we want to control a change.

In every network nodes and bonds connecting nodes can be identified. There is particular object or phenomenon, which is not an object in the colloquial sense, on each node of the network within the qOSTW. We introduce the concept of the system into the qOSTW. There is a system at each node of the network. There is a relationship at each link of the network, that binds systems lying on the nodes connected by the bond.

Why link the network is not identical to a relation. Well, the link exists as long as any of the linked systems experiences changes, where the source is the system linked. Relations between these systems can vary, the binding remains. We have only two states for links: the link exists or it does not.

The network maps the existing objects and relations that links them, while the network and its components provides the tools for a holistic study of the reality.

We introduce another concept: an order. How can we imagine the order? We have a scrap of the network: backbone of nodes and links.

Within this frame we put components of the order:  positions onto the nodes; onto the links we put relationships belonging to the order.

The set of all positions and relationships that make up a given order has got, as a whole, specific functionality (functionality is the potential to provide something, for example: change, a system, an information).

Potential functionality becomes a real functionality when the order elements are occupied by appropriate systems. Thus the order is a set of specific elements and relationships imposed on a subset of the network that, when placed in positions of appropriate systems, supplies (as a whole) specific functionality. The change within the range of the position or relationship entails the change of the order.

To better understand the position of an order in relation to the network let’s add that there can be several items (elements) imposed on one network node, each one from a different order. It also means that the system located on this node occupies each of these items, it means that it is involved in each of the orders which have the position in the given node of the network.

The network informs us which systems are linked with one another, but says nothing about the relationship that binds them; the order says about the relations. There can be several relations imposed on the link of the network. A woman and a man can be married (a relationship in an order specifying marriage) and may be linked through a professional relationship, moreover they can be connected through the third relation of being parents of the same children. Two nodes of the network and one bond, and a woman and a man as systems lying on the nodes of the network and three relationships (of the marital, professional and parental order) imposed on the link.

Sometimes it is comfortable to look at an order like at the finished matrix composed of positions and relationships; at its positions there can be different systems placed. If any of the located systems would not be appropriate for the occupied position, the order will not execute its functionality assigned or will execute different functionality.

The order creates a new system of higher-order out of systems keeping positions of this order, if:

1) a group of those systems linked with the order relationships has got functionality, thus as a whole is the source of change, and

2) occupies a position in the order of a higher range.

This created system is called supersystem in relation to its constituent systems.

We can see that the network must be multidimensional. Note that the world is made of a series of various supersystems.

We have indivisible core systems, which take positions in the superior order. A group of such systems related to the order takes a position within a superior order forming the supersystem. That supersystem occupies a position in the order of even higher order, which is a constitutive order for the 2^nd range of the superior system with respect to our core system, etc ...

It is not possible to take a full understanding of the systems and superior systems, that’s why we will use these concepts as a local traits knowing that every system has a sub-systems series of lower order and supersystems series of higher-order. The human body contains among others subsystems: the atoms with their constitutive order, cells (made ​​of atoms) with their order, organs (composed of cells) with their order, internal systems (made ​​up of organs and cells) with their order, the body with the order bonding all subsystems. The system ‘human individual’ enters into higher-order systems: a human belongs to different groups with their own constitutive orders. An individual can be simultaneously in different groups with various orders. A system ‘class’ (superior system for a system ‘student’) is a subsystem of the system ‘school’, which is a subsystem of the educational system, which is a subsystem of the system ‘state’.

qOSTW clearly distinguishes between the real systems and orders from their mental representation. The concept, which the mind operates, is only a simplified representation of the real system, such as the concept “interpretation” is a simplified representation of the real order. Systems and orders are objective. There are not several versions of the same order. However, there can be a few mental representations of the same order, subjective interpretations, because our imperfect minds and limited senses perceive, recognize and reflect encountered orders and systems differently.

Thus, a conflict occurs at the level of interpretation. At the level of orders and systems there will be no conflict.

qOSTW is a holistic way of looking at the reality. It provides concepts and tools to study the complex reality. qOSTW does not explain how something specifically works, does not describe the specific world. It is rather a complementary method of describtion both, at the general and also structural level. A description of an object or phenomenon consistent with qOSTW can be specified, in the sense that there will be precisely identified and defined component systems, positions of sub-systems, , relationships between them. There are well-defined master systems of the tested system, positions of in superior orders occupied by the tested system, and relationships that bind our system with other systems, which are components of the same superior orders.

Metaphorically you could say that qOSTW provides a framework for model of reality, and the science fills in the frame, this structure with the content. qOSTW provides a set of questions, the answers build our knowledge about a particular piece of reality.

Because qOSTW recognizes an object (system) into networks of relationships, it allows for a holistic view onto the system and its dynamic environment.

Chemistry describes our world with compounds, chemical reactions and their properties. Physics describes the world using the concepts of matter, energy, force, describes the relationship between these figures. qOSTW describes the world using the concepts of system, order, relation, emergence, position, attribute. These three types of information provide complementary descriptions, each of which allows to explore a particular area of ​​the world at a different level, and provides different information. Each of these descriptions provides concepts, theorems and definitions that allow you to specify each part of reality using these concepts. 

Any phenomenon can be studied at three different levels of abstraction: actual (particular specimen tested), abstract (research and explore the knowledge about the class which this specimen belongs to), and conduct research at the highest level of abstraction – at the level of qOSTW, recognizing relationships, orders, superior systems and subsystems, indicating the attributes and functionalities, defining the existing change. The knowledge gained from these three considerations will be complementary. The qOSTW level is a holistic look.