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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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NERVOUS SYSTEM 1)5)

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The study of the nervous system, specially in the human being, is obviously basic for the understanding of our behavior, our ways of thinking and our social relationships.

It is thus very significant for cybernetics and systemics. It is however not possible to develop the subject within the frame of this Encyclopedia (whose editor moreover is in no way competent to do it, even if he may have useful general information)

Only some more specific topics are presented in this work because of their seemingly central importance, but still in a very sketchy way. Among them are:

- the various entries about the brain

- frog's eye experiment

- HEBB's rule and reinforcement

- hippocampus

- learning as cerebral differenciation

- learning matrixes

- neural network

- neuron

- neuron (formal)

- synapse

Also closely related to the subject are:

- autopoiesis

- closure (organizational)

- constructivism and constructivist cybernetics

- coupling (structural)

- hypercycle

- intentionality (perceptive)

- memory

- model building

- observability, observation process, observer

- parallel distributed processing

- the various entries on perception

- reference frames

- synaptic weights

Categories

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

Publisher

Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

To cite this page, please use the following information:

Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]

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