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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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ANABOLISM 1)

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The process of absorption and assimilation of specific inputs by a living system

The anabolic process includes the following phases:

- Ingestion or transduction: the translation of material, energetic or informative inputs from the environment into the system through its boundary.

- Internal transfer: the internal translation from the absorbed inputs to the subsystems that should use them.

- Conversion: the transformation of an input by a specific subsystem to make it fit for the use of the system. In the case of information inputs , the conversion process is called "decoding".

- Production or association: For material or energetic inputs, the synthesis of specific components of the system, out of the converted inputs. For information, the first stage of the learning process.

For the respective roles of the concerned subsystems, see J. MILLER's 20 critical subsystems.

The elimination of products by a living system is called "catabolism", while "metabolism" is the generic term for the complete process of absorption, transformation and elimination of matter, energy and information.

In a more or less analogic sense, higher level living systems (enterprises, groups, organizations, communities, etc …) all anabolize specific inputs.

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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