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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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MANIFEST versus HIDDEN 1)

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A distinction to be made between visible states and/or behavior of a system and other ones, which are not so readily apparent.

Very frequently, deciders of all kinds find themselves trapped in too narrow views about the situations they must meet. One of the most common delusions is the supposedly independent character of some aspects of a situation or parts of a system, when interactions remain unknown and are believed inexistent.

Another one is the incapacity to imagine changes that would not be determined, or worse, determinable at will. As stated by J. FOURASTIE, ignorance of ignorance is worse than simple common ignorance. Or, in G.De ZEEUW's word, we must become aware of invisibility.

Systemics and cybernetics contribute efficiently to this important issue through the use of concepts and models about complexity and complex change.

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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