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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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CONCEPT (Components of a) 3)

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According to A. and H. DAMASIO: "Concepts are stored in the brain in the form of "dormant" records. When these records are reactivated, they can re-create the varied sensations and actions associated with a particular entity or category of entities. A coffee cup, for example, can evoke visual and tactile representations of its shape, color, texture and warmth, along with the smell and taste of the coffee or the path that the hand and the arm take to bring the cup from the table to the lips. All these representations are re-created in separate brain regions, but their reconstruction occurs fairly simultaneously" (1992, p.70).

This understanding of concepts retrieving (or constructions) is based on the model of interconnected neural network in the brain, including mediation layers, specially studied by these authors.

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  • 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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