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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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PRESENT (The everlasting) 1)3)

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Our historical as well as our prospective perception of time are mental constructs based on an everlasting existencial awareness (or non-awareness!) of living at the present moment.

What happens (to me) at this present moment is an integrated result of multiple flows of events converging into my personal perception.

The past is memory, i.e. also a reconstructin phenomenon at the present moment. So are also our future expectations, which are merely (just now) a speculative mental construct.

P. VENDRYES explained the present moment as the instance of decision making by the selection of only one action possibility among many. That selection precludes the possibility of any other action that we could have selected. This selection process is repeated at any future moment.

Another significant aspect is that every individual is enclosed in his/her own present, without any possibility to be influenced at this very moment by events occuring now to others in other places, as there is always a time lag in the propagation of effects.

Moreover psychical connexions between individuals requires- also at any present moment- consensus on what was and is perceived. Such a consensus is difficult to create and still much more difficult to maintain as "the time flows"

→ Cycle (Inclusion); Exclusion Principle; Hippocampus; Morphic field; Nervous System; Object-in-time; Perception (Time limits in); Relativity postulate; Simultaneity

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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