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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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COMPLETION FROM WITHOUT Principle 3)

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"The ultimate inadequacy of any control language to perform its task can be remedied by the technique of inserting a black box in the control circuit" (After S. BEER, 1971, p.81).

The ultimate inadequacy referred to by BEER is, as he himself states, a result from GÖDEL's Incompleteness Theorem. His principle is based on the idea that: "The function of the back box is precisely to invoke the decisions of a higher language, which of course cannot by definition be expressed in terms of the control language, to repair the deficiencies of the original decision-making machine& The undecidable language is to be keyed in" to the real life it seeks to describe by an inherently indefinable black box" (Ibid).

This should be compared with J.van GIGCH's concept of metasystem and its use for "decision making about decision making" (1986).

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