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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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NOMOGENESIS 2)3)5)

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"Directed increase of complexity (pre-adaptation) and inmediate effect of the environment" (as defined by V.V. NALIMOV, 1985, p. 32)

Nalimov relates nomogenesis to Bayesian probabilities: "The Bayesian syllogism, in accordance with Nomogenesis, ignores the creative role of natural selection. However, what we keep in mind is not complete rejection of natural selection as a factor of evolution, but the abandonment of the concept of evolution as a random search"(Ibid)

It seems obvious that evolution, i.e. any kind of evolution, must necessarily be a compromise between processes and structures that self-constructed as results of constraints in the past (but still in force) and the possibility or need for innovation.

It would be interesting to compare these views with the concept of deterministic chaos and self organization.

→ Artificial life; Co-evolution; Morphic field; Neoteny; Network behavior; Parallel distributed processing

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