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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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POSITIVISM (Neurological 3)

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A theory about the ways world, brain and mind are homologously linked.

This interesting epistemological view has been introduced by L. R. VANDERVERT (1988, p.313-21)

"Neurological positivism asserts that nervous systems project their order onto the environment to extract invariance. This neurological level projective process is father (homologically speaking) to all knowing… and to all cognitive-level projection which is a part of the literature of personality psychology. Knowledge is a category of evolving invariance which arises as the result of the projection of the neurological order" (p.317).

VANDERVERT inspired himself from LASZLO's information flow loop "which include the following:

"1. variant environment

"2. perception input

"3. control coding (or coupling) between input and output (in neurological positivism this is the neurological order)

"4. output (behavior)

"This loop accomplishes two things. First, it maintains invariant steady states in the nervous system (or in cognition) through negative feedback. Second, it self-organizes or adapts the system to the vagaries of the environment through projected or projective positive feedback processes" (Ibid).

VANDERVERT's views should be compared with J.J. GIBSON's ecological perception, BATESON's ecology of mind, von FOERSTER's cybernetics of "observing systems", with MATURANA and VARELA's recursivity and organizational closure and with M. EIGEN's hypercycle.

Categories

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

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