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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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CHAOS (Anti-) 1)

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A property of "some very disordered systems (which) spontaneously crystallize into a high degree of order".

Such "very disordered systems" seem to contain implicite order, through the nonlinear interactions between a number of different simultaneous types of behavior within the system. These result in a very complex global determinism at such a very long term time horizon that it either cannot be observed, or becomes deeply transformed in time by perturbations. See "Prime numbers" and "Three Bodies Problem".

"However, in some cases, these nonlinear interactions become associated in such a way as to generate a strongly unifying and self-maintaining pattern. Solitons are good examples of this kind of self-organization.

According to J. BRIGGS & F. DAVID PEAT (1989), solitons, very far to be only a rare and curious hydrodynamic phenomenon, as for example giant waves that sometimes appear in oceans, would be a very general one, even in biological systems and in nervous transmission.

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