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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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REFLEXION FROM REFLECTION 3)

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To have two different spellings for what is considered the same word in many dictionaries comes now to be quite useful. The works of G. PASK, H. MATURANA, F. VARELA and D. SCHÖN, as well as in another style the work of P.P. GRASSÉ have illuminated the difference (as well as the connection)

Reflection has a psychological meaning related to its physical meaning. It takes two, or more, conversants "reflecting" to each other their views, to start a "conversation"in which each one is trying to interprete whatever the other is showing or saying him.

This kind of psychological experience "with the other" is also the basis of a human structural coupling in the way of MATURANA. It leads to a kind of cooperative autopoiesis through which each participant comes to accomodate the thus obtained experience through perception, into his own self-understanding. This is of course "reflexion"and a recursive process.

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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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