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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AWARENESS (Levels of) 1)5)

Levels of awareness seem to be depending on the growing levels of complexity of the nervous system and the brain all along the evolutive lines of animal species

It has much to do with the activity chain that starts with perception, follows with perception interpreted as a signal, and ends with some behavior triggered by the signal

The following levels of awareness should be tentatively considered:

- perception (in all cases the basic condition for any awareness)

- inner interpretation of perception as a "signal"( this already supposes a previous training

The capacity of interpretation broadens, widens and deepens until it reaches the aptitude for finer and finer distinctions in categorization and, finally, more and more capacity for complex abstraction and self reflecting representation.

- enhanced individual awareness obtained through reciprocal signaling within social frames. Such frames also become ever more complex from social amoeba to human societies

- the possibly questionable level of collective awareness in societies and cultures

Archaic forms of such collective awareness can be observed in beehives, termites mounds and ants nests.

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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