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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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DEPENDENCE AND INDEPENDENCE 1)2)

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P. VENDRYES writes: "ln the 19th century, A. COURNOT (1801-1877) insisted more than anyone else on the fact that randomness appears when independent causal series confront each other. This remark leads to a general principle: Relations between two objects are random when they are independent of each other and deterministic when they are dependent.

"The fact that the pre-condition of randomness is independence, whilst that of determinism is dependence, vastly enhances the scientific value of the notions of dependence and independence. And because autonomy is an acquired independence it is rigorously logical to assert that physiology makes use of randomness in order to be intelligible and therefore is not reliant upon deterministic mathematics as its sole system of theoretical reference" (1989, p.146).

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