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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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BIOSEMIOTICS 1)3)5)

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The study of the origins of meanings as a problem of biology (K. Kull, 2000, p. 91)

"A new field which concerns itself with signs in biological systems, ranging from communication among animals to the individual cells' genetic code as a sign system of its own" (CI. EMMECHE, 1994, p.126)

The field is also known as Semiotic Biology

The beginnings of Biosemiotics can be traced back to J.von ÜEXKULL (1928, 1934)

However, the subject lay dormant for many years. It is now reviving, specially with G. WITZANY in Austria (2000), M. BARBIERI , University of Ferrara, Italy, K. KULL, University of Tartu, Estonia and the "Cybernetics and Human knowing group" of S. BRIER, in Denmark.

The following statement by WITZANY, quoted by Kull (2000, p. 92) seems to clarly define the central idea of Biosemiotics: “… living nature is structured and organized in a language-like and communicative manner, i.e. that all organisms, including humans, are members of a global community of communication… Evolutionary history could then be understood as a developmental history of interaction semioses"

→ Biosphere; Colony; Ecosphere; Ecosystem; Ecosystems dynamics; Ecosystemic relation; Evolution(Co); Gaia hypothesis; lnformation transmission; Stigmergy; Swarm; World Engine

Categories

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

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