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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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PANORAMA OF UNDERSTANDING 1)2)

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H.. BENKING proposes a three-fold space-time panorama of understanding linking subjects, objects and contexts. He writes "The objective is to transcend and transform by thinking within, between and beyond, not inside "boxes" or domains"

Graphically, Benking proposes a representation through interconnexions between three boxes: the subject-box, the object-box and the context-box.

He writes: "The subject-box and the context-box are looking at the objects in the object-box, and the context-box enables us to map the metaphors of understanding the kind of reality in which this is taking place"

Each "box" is represented by a cube, that can easily be subdivided in more elemental sub-boxes corresponding to more specific situations.

This model is based, according to BENKING "on the ekistic grid, as conceived by DOXIADIS in the field of planning sciences. We can search not only for words, but for "areas" or "bodies" of data and knowledge. After agreement on location and content, genuine capabilities of man can come into play, which allow fast visual access and assimilation of very large volumes of data"

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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