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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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INFORMATION (Evolution of) 1)

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S. GOONATILAKE proposed an evolutive hypothesis about information: "The evolution of information on earth gave rise to the sequence of information cores which emerged corresponding to these different environmental stages. In the first core, the struggles with the environment is coded in DNA. Later, outer flow cores are 'externalized' from this inner core of DNA, corresponding to the cultural flow lines running through brains. Still later, exosomatic information flow lines are externalized out from the biological package" (1991, p.132).

Moreover: "The different flow line cores do not exist unconnected and unattached to each other. They are inexorably linked… It is a continuing process, of reacting with and adapting to the environment. The tendency towards further elaboration and evolution of information is therefore but a necessary outcome of an almost inevitable phylogenetic process" (Ibid).

The succesive and progressive forms of information are thus embedded within each other. Curiously, this process seems to be accelerating through time, which parallels F. MEYER's theory of evolutive acceleration.

Categories

  • 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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