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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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NON-LOCALITY 2)3)

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The boundless influence of an element, event or system in space and time.

The status of the concept – generalized by D. BOHM – is still somewhat obscure and controversial.

In BOHM's words, there is an "implicate order… This order is not to be understood solely in terms of a regular arrangement of objects (e.g., in rows) or as a regular arrangement of events (e.g., in a series). Rather, a total order is contained, in some implicit sense, in each region of space and time" (1980, p.149).

BOHM exemplifies this as follows: "Thus, in a television broadcast, the visual image is translated into a time order, which is 'carried' by the radio wave. Points that are near each other in the visual image are not necessarily near in the order of the radio signal. Thus the radio wave carries the visual image in an implicate order. The function of the receiver is then to explicate this order, i.e. to 'unfold' it in the form of a new visual image" (Ibid).

An hologram offers another insight in non-locality, as its whole information content is scattered in its whole extension.

I PRIGOGINE observes that some transformations are non-local as they replace "a point by an ensemble" and "break the temporal symmetry" (1986, p.10). This is an interesting clue.

The non-locality concept is somehow endorsed by H. SABELLI: "In the language of Process theory, only the material component of a system is local, whereas the energetic and informational aspects irradiate boundlessly" (1992 b, p.682). It is debatable if this is exactly BOHM's idea.

If finally well confirmed, non-locality will very probably become a cornerstone for a cosmic generalization of systemics.

In the recent years, research on non-locality and the related phenomena of entanglement and decoherence in quantum mechanics has entered in its experimental phase.

However, particles behavior and the macroscopic world of classical mechanics remain still at odds for our common understanding.

As stated by S. HAROCHE in a paper explaining research in course: "The results of all these experiments are counter- intuitive"(1998, p. 36-42)

→ Quantal representation; Quantum hologram; Quantum vacuum

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