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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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AUTOGENESIS (From) to AUTOPOIESIS 2)

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This transition results of the appearence of replication within hitherto not functionally interconnected sets of compatible components (CSANYI's "zero-system")

This author writes: "A system may contain several different kinds of components, which are all replicative units with diverse fidelity, Among these, interrelationships develop and, as a result, their replication becomes coordinated. Gradually the whole system will start replicating as a final replicative unity, In the autogenetic process, the organization of the system and of its parts changes due to the functions of the emerging new components, Thus autogenesis is possible only while the state of identical replication has not yet been achieved, In that state, the system becomes functionally closed and its replication in time continues as long as the environment does not change, There are no further organizational changes initiated by organizational causes because new functions cannot originate… This end state of an autogenetic system is equivalent to what VARELA calls autopoiesis" (CSANYI, 1993, p.264)"

There are time limits to autopoiesis, because the capacity of any system to generate accomodating or adaptive responses to environmental stimuli, while considerable, is however limited: systems are maturing and finally ageing.

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