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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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COGNITIVE SPACES 1)

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Each individual has his/her proper cognitive space, i.e. a perceptive capacity.

The dimensions of this cognitive space depend on information, training and finally on a person 's awareness. All this depends globally from the cultural setting.

While in general terms this is clearly described by D. MEADOWS et al. graph of human perspectives (1972, p. 19), the two-dimensional graph can be expanded in the third dimension, as showed by H BENKING, in order to take many different aspects of the general environment. While one can be specially interested in some economic (or ecological, or cultural, or…) issue, a more general and global, but at the same time more complex view can only be acquired by collaborating and conversational groups.

In this sense Benking distinguishes subjective views and objective ones. The subjective views, are related to the different aspects of perceived environment that can be considered at the same moment by different observers or at different moments by the same observer. The objective view tries to describe the environment at micro-, meso- and macroscale, in the short, medium or long-term time scale (see www.benking.de/cube/)

→ Cognitive panorama; Eco-cube; Metaphors (classes of); Venn diagram

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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