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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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SIMULTANEITY: the relativist view 1)3)

F. HEYLIGHEN writes: "In relativity theory, we have the principle of relativity together with the principle of invariant speed limit c for causal propagation, which entail the impossibility to distinguish simultaneous from nonsimultaneous events that are spatially separated" (1990a, p.441).

This is the case, for instance, of somebody observing the sky at night. The simultaneous character of the observed celestial show is a perceptive artefact.

HEYLIGHEN views this principle as an example expressing "the impossibility to establish a certain classical distinction in an absolute way" (Ibid).

R. FISCHER states, in a different sense: "… the covariance between the "external motions" of substance "out there", and "internal motions" (the subject's systemic rate of change as a reflection of his/her arousal) that results in invariant features of the transform (interface or reality) is a principle of neurobiological relativity" (1991, p.99).

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