BCSSS

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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FILTER 2)3)

Any device that selects inputs in a system.

No system could ever cope with the totality of the potential stimuli it could receive from the global environment: its "fuses" would immediately "blowout". Its functional characteristics depend precisely on the more specific environment whose inputs are significant for it.

Any system is however shaped from its genesis by a set of rules that will first define with precision what is acceptable for it and next, in a progressive way establish which classes of inputs it will finally accept, within the range of the acceptable ones.

This process of constrainment requires and produces the construction of the selective devices called filters.

Filters can be adaptive to different values of stimuli: it is for example the case of the eye 's pupil, which may contract or expand within an acceptability range, according to the intensity of light.

Any communication which is not merely a blind interaction is based on filters (or constraints) that define a language of shared meanings (K. BERRIEN, 1968, p.113).

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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