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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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FUNCTIONAL COMPARTMENT 2)4)

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A region in a not clearly structured system where some elements of a specific type work together.

This notion has been proposed by M. HOPPERT and F. MEYER (1999, p.518). They give as an example the grouping in a specific area in a prokaryote cell of "the molecules required for a particular metabolic activity".

This would be a stage preliminary to the appearance of membrane-bounded compartments in the eukaryotes.

The authors add: "Studies… suggest that functional compartments arise spontaneously as a result of the intrinsic properties of the biomolecules themselves and the way they interact with water in the cytoplasm. We have also found that the specific structure of water itself can influence the level of enzyme activity in particular microenvironments".

These phenomena seem to be good examples of CSANYI's autogenesis, autogenetic systems precursors and zero-systems.

Functional compartments could probably be used as models for the progressive appearance and upbuilding of new structures in human societies, specially during the present planetary globalization process.

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