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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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SYNTONY QUEST 1)4)

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Alex and Kathia LASZLO have adapted the concept of syntony to human systems. Syntony Quest is about seeking "to catalyse learning processes that empower individuals and groups to develop the competencies necessary for the co-creation of sustainable, evolutionary futures"

Essentially, they propose:

- transformative learning

- the design of self-directed learning processes

- the acquisition of evolutionary competence

- the conscious creation of sustainability

They base these proposals on the following areas of knowledge:

- evolutionary systems theory

- social systems design methodology

- transformative learning philosophy

They consider that "these approaches lead to the mastery of the knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and values required for co-evolutionary action, and thereby, for the pursuit of sustainable modes of being.

Syntony Quest is an organization (based in San Francisco, e-mail: Syntony.Quest@usa.net) "dedicated to the development of evolutionary competence" that seeks "to foster the emergence of evolutionary learning communities (ELCs) and communities of ELCs, i.e. evolutionary learning ecosystems"

Such ecosystems obviously included human active participation. The ELC concept has been mainly develope by A. Laszlo himself (partly during Fuschl Conversations)

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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