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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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MEME COMPLEX 1)4)

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"A co-adapted stable set of mutually -assisting memes" (R. DAWKINS, 1978, p.212).

Memes complexes are created by consensus about the significance given to some signs and start being transmitted after such recognition. It is in this sense that G.R. JOHNSON may write that "… information exchange is really nothing more than a metaphor for biological action at a distance, i.e., the influence of one nervous system on other nervous systems through the production of physicochemical stimuli to which those other nervous systems are sensitive" (1992, p.1143). Or "A speaker says something that is a product of prior genotype-environment interactions and his or her current environment. A listener exposed to this behavior responds on the basis of his or her prior genotype-environment interactions and current environment" (p.1145).

DAWKINS states that we could perhaps regard as an example "… an organized church, with its architecture, rituals, laws, music, art, and written tradition" (Ibid).

Meme complexes have obviously a strong tendency to propagate in space and a great survival power in time.

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  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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