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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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UNIFICATION PROBLEM 2)3)

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The unification problem emerges from our general (cartesian) methodology to fragment complex systems in severed parts in order to better understand their nature.

However such "cutting to pieces"destroys, or at least, reduces our undertanding of the whole system.

L. LÖFGREN (2000, p. 15-20) sees the problem mainly as a result of our languages, which is clearly true, at least in western cultures

He sees any low fragmentation as unavoidable and even proposes it as a fundamental concept for General Systems. He offers as "a first natural proposal… an interdisciplinary understanding"(p. 15). This may seem insufficient in order to restaure an integrated holistic view, as it most generally amounts merely to a "collage".

This editor believes that we should reach for transdisciplinarity, i.e. creating a language of systemic concepts and models, mainly for the purpose of wholeness understanding through the study of links and relationships.

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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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