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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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In the widest sense, we obtain all information from our environment, through our interactions with it. But the quantity of information that we are able to gather depends on our own mental (and psycho-motor) frame of reference. For example, a geologist observing a rocky mountain cliff would gather more information from some of the features he sees than a common observer, because he knows the implicit meaning of the sedimentary strata he observes. He thus becomes able to interpret what he sees and even register some specific and peculiar characteristics out of which he may develop a deeper understanding.

The point is neatly made by I. STEWART in a paper about magic. The magician is basically a trickster who uses codings and rules. specially if working with an aide. He becomes able to gather information from gestures or words that seem indifferent to spectators (2003, p. 38-39

→ Code; Experimental frame; Frame of reference; Meaning (Formation of); Meaning theory; Observation process; Observer

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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