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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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LOCALITY 1)3)

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The hypothesis according to which no element or system can exercize an unlimited action at distance, and still less so, an instantaneous one.

Or "The dominance in a limited region of space of specific conditions of interactions among elements".

It is finally amazing to note how many shades of meaning such an appearently clear concept can evoque.

D. TSAGDIS, for instance, writes (in a footnote!): "Locality is semantically over-loaded. It can refer, for example, to: a Cartesian spatiotemporal space, a Husserlean experiential region, a Heideggerian horizon, a Wittgensteinean language game, and/or their syntheses. A more helpful way of understanding such a rich notion is to conceptualize it as constituted by the four sources of observational error, viz. observer, context, object, language.

This would be a "richer"or, dare I say, more complex locality constituted with all four sources of error… "(2002, p. 152)

In other words, fields are not infinite and, in accordance with relativity, the light's propagation velocity cannot be surpassed.

This hypothesis seems now to compete with D. BOHM concept of non-locality. This could lead to a deep reevaluation of many scientific concepts.

→ Energy; Matter; Perceptual field; Space; Time

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  • 2) Methodology or model
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