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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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CONGRUENCE (Structural) 3)4)

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1 The basic and limitative organization of our capacity as an observer and actor.

2- The basic and limitative organization of the global capacity as observers of some group of individuals (probably in social animals, as well as in humans).

The first level of structural congruence refers to the individual and has the following roots:

a) it results from the progressive learning, which is slightly or vastly different from one individual to another, and organizes a specific conceptual space on the basis of defined constraints, for each of us (for example, the rules of harmony for an 18th Century composer).

Apart from basic physiological limitations to perception, learning differentiates and refines some perceptive abilities, while it stifles others. The mind ends up with a kind of general congruence of autopoietic character and a great number of more specific congruences (for example between the specific techniques in a profession, or driving a car).

b) individual learning reflects of course collective mindscapes, which frame it and orient it toward specific capabilities and inhibitions, defined by the culture. The second level of structural congruence is a result and also the basis of communication. It is constantly reconstructed by a process of shifting consensus and becomes reflected for example in semantic polysemy and the slow evolution of natural languages.

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  • 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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