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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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A german word whose meaning is co-world, i.e. the environment with which we are interdependent.

The term would usefully replace the "Umwelt" concept, at least for human system. In fact, most people see our Umwelt merely as the background that humans can exploit and use at their own convenience, feeling as they were "bosses"of nature, in an unlimited way (ECIMOVIC, T. et al., 2002, 1.4)

Contrarywise, "Mitwelt" clearly indicates that the relationship is reciprocal: people act and react with their specific environment in various distinct way:

- they must adapt to the nature of the environment: there are for example "desert cultures", islands cultures', arctic cultures"

- they must adapt and readapt to the natural variations of their environment

- they receive feedbacks from their action on the environment and must adapt to the consequences of these feedbacks

All this means moreover that the interdependence is a dynamic constantly ongoing and ever variable process

→ Co-evolution; Control; Ecosphere; Ecosystems dynamics; Effects (Delayed); Effects (Side); Parasitism; Regulation; Symbiosis; World engine

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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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