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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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CREATION (CO-) 1)2)

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The shaping of new elements or structures as a result of interaction between opposite forces.

According to D. SEIDEN and H. SABELLI (1992, p.720-27) any creation is co-creation, resulting from "unity, opposition and triadic space-like structure" (p.720). The basic root of co-creation is arithmetical, as "the science of form was born of art with the discovery of simple relations between string instruments and their sound (PYTHAGORAS), the divine proportion (FIBONACCI), the Golden rectangle (EUCLID) and other forms later found also in natural processes… These forms are the logic of nature, the logos (HERACLITUS)… Small integers, non dimensional numbers, and some geometrical forms are "Iogoi", i.e. universal forms embodied in matter… In our century, THOM developed the theory of catastrophes as mathematical models for the simpler forms of logoi" (Ibid).

Let us also refer to C. LAVILLE's study of helixes and whorls fed by interacting fields of energy shaping forms and structures.(1950).

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