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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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CORRELATION (Potential directive) 1)2)

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Aptitude for reciprocal control interactions, which are activated only when certain environmental variations make it necessary.

This type of correlation appears for example when a hungry animal reaches a state of alertness and starts to run after a prey. G. SOMMERHOFF writes, moreover:"An animal in a state of alertness is not just in a state of potential activity, but of potential activity of a certain kind" (1969, p.192).

According to SOMMERHOFF the concept is no less important in order to explain search or impulsive behavior, or social integration. In this last case, he emphasizes the fact that social cohesion refers not only to what components are doing in general, but to what they should do if some specific situation should happen. He gives the following example: "A patriot is not a patriot so much by virtue of what he does at every moment of his daily routine, but by virtue of what he would do in certain special contingencies, as in a case of a national emergency" (p.193).

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