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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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An hypothised capacity of the brain to construct more or less coherent histories about our successive experiences with the outside world (J. GRAY, 2002, p. 48)

This would be a typical autopoietic process and a general aid for understanding and subsequently coherent action.

This narratives upbuilding would seem to start very early in the brain of the baby and be a condition for further mental and psychic development.

It is very probably connected with the concept of "internal language"as developed by some psychologists.

And of course, no narratives could be expressed without a language. This introduces cultural constraints into the ways the narratives are constructed and evolve from childhood to maturity, as a holistic integrating process (L. VYGOTSKY; J. PIAGET)

According to M. GAZZANIGA it is the left hemisphere of the brain that "makes sense" for us. It must thus be the origin of the narratives (J. GRAY, p. 49)

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