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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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ORDER (Generative) 2)3)

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"A deeper and more inward order out of which the manifest form of things can emerge creatively" (D. BOHM & F. DAVID PEAT, 1987, p. 151).

This is a generalization of the "implicate order" concept formerly introduced by D. BOHM himself: "…a particular kind of generative order that has been most fully worked out in physiscs" (Ibid).

However, BOHM and PEAT suggest that: "… such a generative order goes far beyond the quantum theory, and is a key feature of the general notion of order that is relevant to understand creativity in all areas of life" (3p. 195).

Generative order seems to be in BOHM's idea a kind of universal and global limit to randomness. It remains present, for instance, in deterministic chaos.

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According to BOHM and PEAT, the concept is also useful in the study of social systems: "The breakdown in the generative order of society is more than mere decay… Rather, the rigidity in the generative order constitutes an extremely pervasive and far-reaching blockage of free play of the mind, and this makes for the constant spread of false play and prevents creativity that could adequately meet this situation" (p.209).

Values could be the form taken by generative order in human societies. But we would need a clear explanation for its breakdown.

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
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