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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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DISJUNCTION PRINCIPLE (D.P.) 1)2)

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Global determinism is not possible because of the non-instantaneous character of interrelations propagations.

This derives in fact from relativity theory and the multiplicity of simultaneous events in different places.

It explains why Laplace in his famous enunciation of universal and absolute determinism (R. PASSET, p. 33) must introduce an universal and omniscient intelligence.

Of course, such an intelligence does not exist in any known living being of the past or the present.

It is however to be noted that the very disjunction principle is in itself… disjoined

In effect the "coeficient of disjunction" (i.e. the time needed for the propagation of effects between various entities) is different in all cases. Andromeda galaxy is more disjoined from us than the sun and the sun more disjoined than the moon.

The D.P. is also at the root of chaotic determinism and has basically a time dimension.

As such it must have some connection with thermodynamics.

This is a mere preliminar exploration of the subject whose consequences could be far reaching (and possibly very controversial)

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