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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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DISSOLUTION OF A SYSTEM 1)4)

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Ch. SMITH resumes E. JANTSCH's synthesis about a system's dissolution in conditions of turbulence. Associated conditions and processes are as follows:

"a) Initial conditions of disequilibrium – through a system's opening to internal or external forces of turbulence. Forces moving a system toward disequilibrium must be sufficiently intense or be stepped up to a degree that they act to push the system out of its equilibrium maintaining or stabilizing parameters.

"b) Symmetry breaking – involving a system's breaking down of its structures and processes – (must reach) to an extent that sufficient degrees of freedom become available as a capacity within which new structures may be formed" (1986, p.206).

Of course, many systems are utterly destroyed by turbulence, never getting any chance to reach a higher level of organization by dissipative structuration.

In these cases, their elements are set free and may become parts of new systems. This has been the case, for example, of members of archaic tribes who individually survive the destruction of their society and are incorporated at least biologically in another culture, carrying over with them some genetic and cultural traits.

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