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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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UNCERTAINTY (in psychological sense) 3)4)

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Any interaction between an observer and what is observed, changes both.

D. Mac KAY writes: "The second type of "absolute" uncertainty attends our knowledge of one another in interpersonal dialogue (as distinct from detached physical observation. Quite independently of any physical indeterminacy of our brain mechanism, this uncertainty reflects the fact that, in the public calculus of two or more persons in dialogue, no valid definitive prediction exists for their detailed future behavior. In this relationship the action of each has an irreductible (potential) selective information- content, for his fellows as well as for himself" (1969, p.154).

Here again, like in the case of indeterminacy, it is arguable if every individual (and every group) can ever act outside the global determinism, as the product of education and instruction within a specific culture, not to speak of the general human conditionings.

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