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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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READINESS (Conditional) 1)

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This a conditional potential for behavior, more subtle than the behaviorist's conditioned behavior. D M. Mac KAY proposes this notion as follows: "Suppose… someone tells your "it's raining". You may be immersed in a book, and may not feel inclined even to grunt an aknowledgement. But this does not mean that your understanding of the message has had no effect on you. If a sudden call comes for you to go out of doors, you may now be ready to reach for umbrella or mac… What has been affected by your understanding of the message is not necessarily what you do – as some behaviourists have suggested – but reather what you would be ready to do if given (relevant) circumstances arose. It is quite possible that relevant circumstances may never arise, so that a naively behaviouristic approach would reveal no sign that you had understood the message. It is not your behaviour, but rather your state of conditional readiness for behaviour, which betokens the meaning (to your) of the message you heard" (1969, p.22).

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  • 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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