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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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SYSTEM (META-) TRANSITION 2)

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Transition toward a higher level of control in a system.

Such a process may take place when the existing cognitive subsystem is no longer able to cope with a growing complexity, which happens "… if the variety of possible actions is larger than (its) capacity for control."(F. HEYLIGHEN, 1991).

Through this kind of complexity emergence "… a number of control systems are integrated into a single whole with the formation of a global control system" (Ibid).

HEYLIGHEN adds: "… the emergence of control leads to an increase of variety, whereas the increase of variety, if it is large enough, stimulates the emergence of a new control in a positive feedback cycle" (Ibid).

In this way a hierarchy of controls builds progressively up. Furthermore: "… once the control at the higher or meta-level has emerged, the number of subsystems it controls will in general increase. V. TURCHIN calls this phenomenon the branching growth of the penultimate lever" (Ibid).

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