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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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KNOWLEDGE (Tacit infrastructure of) 3)

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D. BOHM and F.D. PEAT write: "Some of our most valuable skills exist in the form of… tacit infrastructure of knowledge. A child, for example, spends long hours with a bicycle before suddenly learning to ride. Yet, once the new skill is acquired, it never seems to be forgotten" (1987, p.20).

In other words, we acquire behavioral algorithms and mental autopoiesis, by back-propagation (i.e. automatic self correction), by automatic reinforcement of successful behavior or by normative feedback.

This is somehow recognized even by J.J. GIBSON, who writes: "Knowledge of the environment, surely, develops as perception develops, extends as the observers travel, gets finer as they know to scrutinize, gets longer as they apprehend more events, gets fuller as they see more objects, and gets rich as they notice more affordances" (1986, p.153).

In short, it becomes better as we enrich – and learn how to enrich – our sensorially obtained data. Knowledge becomes in this way a capacity for recognizing similarities with that which one is already equipped to recognize, and a capacity to blow up accordingly the autopoietic frames of reference from inside out.

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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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