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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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Progressive internal structuration of a system.

This should be taken as a systemic etymological exploration of meanings!

Any complex system seems to start with a basic program, or grammar of rules which endows it with its proper, unique and permanent identity (organizational closure) However, internal structuration results of a progressive build-up, through the interaction of the program with the basic or circumstancial environment.

This is specially true of man as thus expressed by L. THAYER: "… all other creatures enter the world esentially pre-formed to take into account that which they can and must. Not so, man. He must be in-formed, and this, by his fellows. What is therefore real, important, relevant, etc., for man must be learned by him (or "taught" to him). A common cricket is merely informed by certain signals which he has been pre-formed to receive and respond to. A man is both informed and in-formed. Because he has received and acted upon it once, no "message" will ever be exactly the same to him again. A man evolves as a human out of his communication experiences. He is irreversibly altered" (1972, p. 105-6).

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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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