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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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CALCULUS OF INDICATIONS 2)

A fundamental arithmetic that forms the ultimate basis of Boolean algebra. It has been introduced by G. SPENCER BROWN in his book "Laws of Form" (1969, 1979).

F. VARELA states: "By succeeding in going deeper than truth, to indication and the laws of its form, he has provided an account of the common ground in which both logic and the structure of any universe are cradled, thus providing a foundation for a genuine theory of general systems" (1975, p.6).

BROWN's calculus of indications starts from the ideas of indication and distinction as "… a necessary condition for an act of indication is the drawing of a distinction. The form (paradigm) of distinction is taken as the form (paradigm). All other forms (paradigms) are taken out of (follow from) the form" (R.A. ORCHARD – 1975, p.102).

"A state distinguished by the distinction is marked with the mark 1 and the state is called the marked state" (Ibid).

Arrangements (i.e. combinations) of marked and non-marked states and the use of a directional barb allow for the development of the whole of calculus of indications.

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