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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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DESTRUCTURATION 1)4)

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The loss of internal order in a system.

This is sometimes an intermediate phase in the existence of the system, preceeding a fundamental reorganization or a jump toward a higher level of organization. Its seems that the elements need at some moment be freed from their former links in order to re-arrange themselves into a new structure.

The cause and reasons of this phenomenon have not yet been seriously explored.

A good example is moulting in insects. Another could (hypothetically) be revolutions in human societies.

Still another example is J. SCHUMPETER's "Creative destruction" (1954, p.161). According to this Austrian economist, every important economic evolution generated by technical progress starts inevitably with the destruction of a number of old structures - trades, businesses, rules - not anymore adapted to the new conditions. This leads to a restructuration, generally much more varied and complex, with new trades, new products and wider and more inclusive rules, which allow for further economic progress.

E. KAHLER (1968) describes the same process in the 20th. Century arts, at least in terms of general desintegration of form. Remains to be seen if a restructuration will take place in the future.

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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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