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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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CUES (SOCIAL) 4)

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Signals that the individuals may perceive as a result of the collective behavior of their group.

Social cues are obvious in practically all forms of societies, animal or human.

They are very diverse in nature: concentrated pheromones, collective behavioral change, rituals, ideological calls, etc.

They are kinds of feedbacks between the individuals and their group. Public opinion, for example, as in a famous engraving by A. BÖCKLlN, is a self-reproducing fractal monster. Every individual is imprinted in the same form by his collectivity and contributes to the permanent reproduction of the collective behavior, in a kind of systemic scaling self-similarity.

Social cues may sometimes evolve, but this process is generally quite slow and may be hazardous. Radical shifts of social clues types are very exceptional, as expressed through the famous sicilian "Gattopardo" behavior described by LAMPEDUSA: "Introducing some change in order to maintain things as they are"

Of course, when the social clues lose their clear meaning, the society is in great danger to lose its bearings.

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  • 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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