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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 SIMULATOR 3)

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M. TODA stated that each person has "a general model of the world" (the cognitive simulator) "…which will be applied to each decision problem with some necessary additional pieces of information supplemented" (1965, p.82).

TODA adds: "Apparently a person does not genetically inherits a full-fledged cognitive simulator besides its very basic components, which specify, perhaps above all, how sensory inputs should be processed to obtain the structural and relational information concerning himself and the environment. The main edifice of the cognitive simulator must therefore be built a posteriori on the basis of this type of information. So, we may view the cognitive simulator, as well as other components of the cognitive system, as a self-organizing system" (Ibid).

This seems quite coherent with the model of the cerebral cortex as a self-organizing neural network able to construct and stabilize behavioral algorithms. It also seems to explain how autopoiesis derives from autogenesis and how cognitive autopoiesis derives from genetic autopoiesis.

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