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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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HIERARCHY (Emergent) 1)2)4)

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The emergence of a system of a superior level of complexity goes with a deep reshaping of the internal as well as reciprocal organization of the newly associating components. The following aspects are specially noteworthy:

1) the components lose a part of their autonomy when they enter in reciprocally conditioning interrelations;

2) their control over their own elements is somewhat reduced, specially when these elements start to participate as such in macro-interactions;

3) the new emerging interrelations require a coordination at their own level, which implies the shaping of a superior hierarchical level;

4) the functions of the components do not become the functions of the emergent system, which may need, demand or provoke their weakening or even their elimination;

5) certain constitutive elements of the components may escape from their control and integrate themselves directly to the emergent functions of the new system;

This type of situations is more common than generally believed.

The moulting processes that lead to the adult insect seem to be true to this model. It is also probably the case of embryonary reorganizations during the pregnancy and quite certainly of the present emergence of the supranational systems.

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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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