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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 SYSTEM 3)4)

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The set of values, norms, concepts, rules and models proper to some human group.

F. ROBB states: "In the initial stages of the 'life' or an institution, intensive conversation plays a major role. This defines the kernel of the system of meanings and legitimates in the participants' understanding the taken-for granted assumptions upon which the meaning system rests" (1993, p.2).

The meaning system stabilizes the organization or institution, because it gives it cohesion, avoids deviant behavior, spares efforts and time, limits the squandering of resources and, generally speaking, regulates the whole activity of the system.

In a much extended and metaphoric sense the genetic code could possibly be considered as the cellular meaning system. It would be very interesting to see if it is elaborated through some kind of cellular "conversation". And, of course, meaning systems are constructed in each individual brain: could it be through some kind of neural "conversation" about percepts (obtained from conversation with other people about objects and concepts?).

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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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