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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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TIME of A SYSTEM (Internal) 1)4)

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Biological systems – and possibly social ones – seem to possess a kind of "internal clock", corresponding however to a non-isochronic flow of time, different from one system to another and reflecting "circular logic and operational closure" (E. SCHWARZ, 1992, p.770).

Internal time has been researched by P. LECOMTE du NOUY (1936) and A. MISSENARD (1940) in biological terms and more recently by B. MISRA, I PRIGOGINE and M. COURBAGE (1979) in more general thermodynamic terms.

Also R. VALLÉE has developed the very similar concept of "… a time intrinsically adapted to a dynamical system", which he studied in "globally exploding dynamical linear systems…, in diffusion (or heat) equation (and in)… SCHRÖDINGER equation" (1994, p.33-38).

I. PRIGOGINE et al note: "In addition to the NEWTON-SCHRÖDINGER time, we have to introduce a second "internal:" time describing the relations (the "correlations") between the particles" (1991, p.3). And, for large complex systems: "… the situation is similar to that of radioactive decay, where lifetime has a meaning only for an ensemble of unstable atoms" (p.5).

The subject remains however still obscure and quite in need of more research.

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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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