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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META-CONCEPTS 1)3)

Those concepts of very general character whose span of validity covers numerous different types of situations and systems.

All cybernetic and systemic concepts are meta-concepts. The interconnected set of systemic meta-concepts constitutes a metalanguage within which specific statements originating in some discipline can be generalized. They can thus be used to emphasize significant analogies and isomorphisms between the models we may construct in different disciplines, related to different systems.

For example, feedbacks can be observed in many physical, biological, human and artificial systems, and autopoiesis is proper to any kind of living systems or systems made of living systems (i.e. social systems).

Cybernetic and systemic meta-concepts provide guidelines for transdiciplinarity because they offer a common metalanguage and meta-models to specialists, a way to obtain meta-skills and avoid costly errors when participating in complex projects.

Categories

  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

Publisher

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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