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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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SEMANTIC CLOSURE 3)5)

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Self-catalysis of language and autopoiesis in its uses.

"An entanglement of symbolic controls and material constraints which is closed on its semantics". (H. PATTEE, 1982)

Semantic closure results of the interactions between basic constraints in a language.

H. PATTEE, who introduced this quite abstract notion, applies it to any kind of languages, starting with molecular biology. He writes: "A generalized language might therefore be characterized in a simple chain of constraints that controls the construction of complex patterns" (in KLIR, 1991, p.583-85).

In a human language for instance, there are phonetic constraints at one level and orthographical, grammatical and syntactical ones at other levels.

Semantic closure is characteristic of self-reproducing organisms. L.M. ROCHA comments: "The principle of semantic closure entails symbolic messages that code for compounds of material parts, which will themselves organize" (1996, p.380)

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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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