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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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BRAIN and ENVIRONMENT 1)3)

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… or the macrocosm within the microcosm.

According to V.I. KREMYANSKIY: "The brain first developed mainly as an organ of internal interconnexion, and then primarily as an organ of interconnexion with the environment" (1969, 125-46).

In fact, it seems probable that both developments have been simultaneous and complementary all along evolution, by a kind of alternating process of reinforcement, in relation to ASHBY's Law of Requisite Variety.

KREMYANSKIY adds: "This augmented the dependence of the organism on far more distant and complex events in the environment (with the development of the organs of perception and systems of receptors) (p.141).

Man has been speeding up this movement during the last centuries, with the emergence of more numerous and complex artificial means of perception and interpretation.

However, admitting that the enhanced presence of the environment under the guise of representations within the brain increases dependence it also increases the capacity to handle it, which of course brings forth new hazards.

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