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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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HOLOGRAM (Non-local Quantum) 1)2)3)

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This still very enigmatic concept- at least for this editor- has been discussed by E. MITCHELL (2000, p. 295-310) and a number of authors quoted in MITCHELL's bibliography (Ibid. p. 310-12), mainly since 1992.

Non-locality seems to imply a general subjacent cosmic organization, that could be a kind of hologram.

Self similarity could be distributed at the different levels of cosmic organization and manifest a global property (or global properties) also present at the quantum level and in our brains through quanta processes.

This would be the summing-up of basic homologies between levels, as revealed by WEIRSTRASS self-similar renormalization equation and fractals.

This would imply a permanent trade-off in-between bottom-up and top-down processes, also at work in our ways of perception, representations and understanding of "reality", whatever this ambiguous term may mean.

MITCHELL writes: "Non-local information can now be seen as a ubiquitous and useful property of the cosmos rather than a unique attribute of particles (and human animals)"(2000, p. 298). This could possibly explain how we become able to construct information spaces (GERNERT, 2000, p. 255) more or less elaborated in accordance to our cerebral competence. It seems also to be compatible with MATURANA'S behavioral theory of autopoietic knowledge.

The non-local hologram could also possibly bridge the temporal dimension.

All in all, the subject is fascinating and evokes many sidelines, but needs surely much more experimental work (in physics, and in brain research: for instance) and conceptual creation (without indulging in excessive metaphorical or empty abstractions)

Quantum holograms could also, according to MITCHELL, provide a scientific ground for parapsychology.

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