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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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MAINTENANCE ENERGY DEMAND 1)

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Any system needs energy to maintain its internal organization. This demand of energy is greater in proportion to the level of organization of the system, which is in accordance with the thermodynamics of dynamic equilibrium systems, as established by I. PRIGOGINE.

This has to see with the system's self-reproduction: Errors must be repaired and this process includes a cost, which in last resort is always an energy one. Even the plan to avoid errors has its own cost.

Strangely enough, economy is one discipline were this concept is nearly completely forgotten: repairs are generally accounted for as an increase of general product, and, at the national level, there exists no patrimonial accounting of natural resources, whose natural replacement cost – when replacement is possible is not taken into account (Save in New Zealand, which recently introduced such accounting).

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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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]

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