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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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EQUILIBRATION THEORY 2)3)

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This theory, elaborated by J. PIAGET (1975) is at the same time a biological, a psychological and a conceptual one. E.von GLASERSFED writes: "For PIAGET, knowledge is adaptive insofar as it enables us to control experience and to maintain our equilibrium. I hasten to add that "equilibrium" is a multilevel concept that covers survival on the physical/biological level as well as coherence and non-contradictions in the conceptual sphere.

"This is one of the points where, I think, Humberto MATURANA and PIAGET are in agreement. MATURANA speaks of "effective action "and it is easy to translate "effective action" into PIAGET's terms as any action that maintainsor restores the actor's equilibrium "(1992, p. 24)

von Glasersfeld makes also a connection with B. POWERS' theory of control of perception (1973). Any move to counteract what Powers calls an "error signal" is indeed always a move towards equilibrium (Ibid)

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