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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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NEUROCYBERNETIC PERSPECTIVE 3)4)

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"A metaphor that emphasises active learning and control rather that the passive adaptation that characterises the "open system" view (R.L. FLOOD and M.C. JACKSON, 1991, p.10).

These authors stresses the interest of this view for management and organization theory. They compare the positive and negative aspects of the same:

"Useful

"- It promotes self-inquiry and self-criticism and therefore the possibility of dynamic goalseeking based on learning

"- When there is a high degree of uncertainty it encourages creativity

"When and why does it break down in practice:

" – It tends to forget that the purposes of the parts may not always be the same as the purposes of the whole

"- Adopting recommendations based on this metaphor would require most extant organizations to undergo significant changes that would threaten those that are favoured by the status quo; so they will be resisted

"- It neglects to recognise that organizations are socially constructed phenomena" (p.11)

As to this last point, it seems however that the neurocybernetic model could also help to reach a better understanding of social constructs.

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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