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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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CULTUROCENTRISM 1)4)

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The mental attitude and worldview that tends to interprete facts or issues from the sole- and generally narrow- viewpoint of the values and norms of one's own culture.

Culturocentrism restricts very seriously (and at times, blocks) our understanding of "aliens"(the "barbaroi" of the old Greeks, a word whose present meaning reflects our obvious own culturocentrism)

Such attitude derives easily into deep misunderstandings, mistrust, hostility, intolerance, fanaticism and even criminal behavior. As we receive kind of an imprinting from our own culture, it is very difficult, however, to escape from culturocentrism.

This kind of bias seems also to exist in our understanding of historical cultures: a contemporary man or woman has probably a quite fanciful view of Middle Age life for instance.

One of the most useful goals of science in general and systemics in particular could be the construction of a world-widely accepted consensual understanding of some general concepts and models, to which cybernetics and systemics could make a valuable contribution.

→ Anthropocentrism

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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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