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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 (Implicate) 1)3)

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The hypothesis according to which there is a deeper level of order in the universe that we can only glimpse in a fleeting way through local and momentaneous effects.

The hypothesis has been introduced by D. BOHM (1980) as an interpretation of events at the quantum level.

Any observed phenomenon should be viewed as a "explicate", unpermanent manifestation of the universal implicate order. All forms and movements -corresponding to our perceptions- would be only transient fluctuations of the basic cosmic "fabric "or "whole" as a continuum of energy whatever this could be

As in many other cases, the explanation generates new question marks. Implicate order could even conceivably signal the end of the road for scientific inquiry

In effect, implicate order carries obvious philosophical undertones and reminds of some pronouncements of hindu philosophy. G. ROUVILLOIS writes the following about SHRI AUROBINDO's space-time concept: "The original statute is that of a non-temporal and non-spatial Reality. Space and time would be the same Reality extending herself to obtain the unfolding of what was contained in her. Space and time are the names that we bestow on this self-extension of the one Reality.

"The starting point of AUROBINDO's analysis is the opposition between the unmanifested and manifestation. In a manner, one may say that manifestation belong to a lower order of reality than the unmanifested…

"The non-manifest is the non-temporal, the absolutely eternal, an absolute being by itself, on which manifestation and its limitations can give only a limited and deceitful indication"(1998, p. 79)

The parallelism with BOHM's view is striking. ROUVILLOIS asks himself: "Is space -time a conceptual frame, or a mirror of brain symmetries?"

It seems that we cannot finally escape from a lingering doubt about the real meaning of "Reality"(with or without a majuscule) and our perceptive awareness as the source of "manifestation".

→ Manifest versus hidden; Ontological skepticism; Present (the everlasting); Quantum Hologram; Quantum vacuum

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