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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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ORDER (Degrees of) 2)3)

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According to D. BOHM and F.D. PEAT, order is embedding, or enfolding, or implicite (1987, p.121-129).

These authors hypothetize "orders of infinite degree… which contain a very rich but little explored domain". They contend that: "Within this domain are to be found whole ranges of subtle and complex orders, some of infinite degree, which contain embedded within them many orders of lower degree. This hierarchical nesting of these suborders forms a greater order of its own" (Ibid, p.129).

These somewhat speculative ideas are at least in consonance with:

1/ – WEIERSTRASS renormalization equation

2/ – MANDELBROT's fractals

3/ – MATURANA and VARELA's recursivity

They moreover seem to lurk somehow in the human brain, as shown by the existence of the Russian matrioshka, the Japanese kokeshi, and some of ESCHER's engravings.

In the same vein, J. BRIGGS and F.D. PEAT observe that simple and regular order is exceptional in nature… The real nature's archetypes seem to be nearer to RUELLE's strange attractors and MANDELBROT's fractals than to Platonic solids (1991, French translation, p.110).

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