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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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EVENTS as percepts 3)

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An event is basically the perception of a change, or a distinction between a former and a later state. It is not clear if we perceive events through time flow or time flow through the succession of events: In J.J. GIBSON's words: "Events are perceived, but time is not" (1986, p.1 00).

Another intriguing aspect is that events are perceived in function of a more or less stable background.

Furthermore, the events that are perceived depend on the time-scale of each perceiving system. Events for a caterpillar or a mosquito are those which occur within the reference time frame of a season. Human beings are able to perceive some events on a yearly scale, and even with more abstract insight, on a geological scale.

Any event is inscribed in a specific space-time frame, related to a specific class of observers.

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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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