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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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FIELD (Global) 2)

A combination of all local variables (J. THIERIE,1990, p.442).

The Global Field is reflected by general constraints which affect the system as a whole.

J. THIERIE writes: "With regard to a system governed by a definite global kinetic evolution law (coherence), we are searching for… the consequences of introducing discernibility of parts, at the level of local evolution laws (partitions method).

"… the local steady states of such partitions, when kinetics is nonlinear, are not only fixed by the global variable and the kinetic values of parameters (as usual) but also by a combination of all local variables, called global field.

"This special situation leads to the possibility for local bifurcations to occur without risk for the global stability".

"… those systems offer the unexpected property of deeply rehandling the frequencies distributions of the local variables, keeping a global invariant and coherent behaviour" (1990, p. 442).

This looks as yet another reformulation of organizational closure. Besides, it could probably be connected to chaotic attractors mathematics, which allows for local randomness within a global determinism. One may consider as an example the large physical and psychical autonomy of the living being, once the constraints of its basic biology are respected.

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