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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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SELF-CLOSURE EVENT 2)

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The first interaction between hitherto unconnected elements, leading to the progressive, but irreversible shaping of an autopoietic system.

"In general, it becomes quickly irreversible, but a long morphogenetic process is needed in order to materialize the potential thus created. What comes with self-closure is organizational dynamics.

"Self closure includes the following aspects:

- an interface or boundary appears, separating clearly and in a definitive way the new system from its environment, defining the internal space it controls ("invironment").

- within this boundary, the system asserts inmediately its autonomy. It becomes able to control its inputs and to react to stimuli from its environment. Eventually, it becomes able to exert some action on it

- the system starts at once to differentiate its more or less complex structures and functions

These organizational dynamics are quite well known in the case of biological systems. However, they can be recognized under different guises in social systems, as for example:

- the birth of an enterprise

- the birth of a natural language

Categories

  • 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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