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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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MODEL – REGULATOR IDENTITY (Law of requisite) 2)3)

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"Any regulator that is maximally both successful and simple must be isomorphic with the system being regulated" (R.C. CONANT and W.R. ASHBY, 1970, p.89).

The authors made various interesting comments:

1) Models can be unnecessarily complex.

2) The search for the best regulator is essentially a search among the mappings from S into R.

3) The proof of the theorem avoids all mentions of inputs (an aspect correlated to the autopoesis concept).

4) A time-varying model could be needed if the regulation is to be time-varying.

5) To those who study the brain, the theorem founds a "theoretical neurology": "There can no longer be question about whether the brain models its environment: it must" (p.96-97).

Another interesting line should be looking for social regulators (Values? Norms?), their degree of isomorphy to the social system and their eventual time-variance.

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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