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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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A specific set of signals and their rules of interconnection, forming a communication system used to transmit messages.

There exists a great variety of codes.

Some have a material base, as for example the old flags code in the navy, or any printed alphabet. Others use modulations of some form of energy, as for example sound waves or electro-magnetic ones.

There are also more abstract types of codes, all of them somehow related with transmission of some kind of information between sentient and intelligent beings.

Written or spoken languages, with their specific phonemes, morphemes, vocabularies and syntaxes, are of this type, as well as logical and mathematical languages and some more specific scientific sub-languages used in specialized disciplines.

For any transmission of information at the mental level, both an abstract code and a physical one are generally needed in a sequential way.

The use of any code supposes that it is known by receivers as well as by senders.

Codes must be sufficiently permanent and rigid in order to remain useful.

Categories

  • 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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