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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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MEANING AND INFORMATION 3)

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J. S. WICKEN states: A "reader" brings implicit information to read which is read as part of the system information in which he/she participates- whether this be a theory or a poem. We don't know how to quantify this dimension of information. An organism, in an important sense, results from the grammar of its own generation: we don't know that grammar yet. Although we can understand order and complexity in crisp mathematical terms, "meaning" requires a transaction between knower and known whose terms are presently remote from our understanding" (1979, p.142).

What the "reader" introduces in the process of meaning formation depend on her/his cultural location, historically as well as geographically and his/her specialization. Moreover, everyone brings in his/her own "mindscape"(see MARUYAMA, 1966).

Meaning is mainly subservient to implicit knowledge, i.e. formerly acquired and organized information.

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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