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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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"A global and perpetual enfolding-unfolding dynamical dialogue where everything is connected to everything" (E. SCHWARZ's explanation of D. BOHM's concept)(1999, p. 140)

This somewhat ghostly global model of reality is tempered by the following comment: "In some instances, particularly at our normal scale of functioning (mesoscale), the holomovement may constitute relatively autonomous sub-totalities like the objects around us. In that case the usual way of considering separated objects interacting through external forces is a sufficient approximation (Ibid)

And "In the extreme case of non-separability, only the whole is true. There exist intermediate cases, like in particle physics experiments, where the implicate order can manifest itself by non-separable and non-local effects. For example, the particle-wave duality which appears as a paradox in the conventional interpretation of quantum mechanics, become limpid in the implicate-explicate model: the localized manifestations (quanta) belong to the space-time explicate order, whereas the wave-like effects are reflections of the holistic non-separable non-local implicate order. The wave or particle problem becomes the wave and particle double sided reality"

"Several other dilemmas, like continuity/discontinuity, causality/non-causality, order/disorder, being/becoming, observer/observed, mind/body, can be made intelligible with the double order model "(Ibid, p. 141)

Remains to find the epistemologic value of this model (What does it say about the ways of our understanding). And in the view of this editor, ontological skepticism is not eliminated by this mind-stretching Weltanschauung.

What would EINSTEIN have said? He, who did not believe in " spooky action at a distance"

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  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
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