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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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ETHICS (Normative) 4)

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G. MINATI considers normative ethics as "a self-designed social software", or "social self-designed space of rules in which social systems behave"(2002 a)

In such a process "agents and collective beings behave giving rise to new processes of emergence affecting both natural environment and current social ones".

And "This social space of rules strongly influences behaviors of collective beings, i.e. available, used cognitive models".

These views, while seemingly meaningful, would need some clarifications:

- could "Collective Beings" be assimilated for example to rule-bound human systems?

- How exactly do agents insert themselves in "Collective beings"?

How does this metalevel ruled space arises out of interrelated agents actions? Could for example the network model be useful and how?

- What could be the role of "cognitive models" in "cultures"? Or are cultures implicit "cognitive models"?

As to "ethics", if "normative", it is very different to the personalistic ethics of von Foerster, for example.

→ Autopoiesis; Closure; Ethics and Morality; Morality; Semantics (General)

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  • 2) Methodology or model
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