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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 DISSONANCE 3)

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M. TODA uses this L. FESTINGER's concept (1957) as follows: "… one may get an information which is so out of range of his expectation that the validity of his cognitive simulator may be seriously doubted… On the other hand, the structure of the environment, particularly that of a society, may not remain the same in the long run, and the validity of the frozen cognitive simulator will be degraded accordingly" (1976, p,83).

"frozen" is a very significative adjective in this case: it transmits with full clarity a critical aspect of mental algorithms, which need to be stabilized in order to become useful, but may altogether become counter adaptive.

TODA makes the point: "So once one starts to "defend" his cognitive simulator, the need for defence will increase in frequency following the validity degradation, which will in turn decrease the real information input, and this may very well be the beginning of a vicious circle" (Ibid).

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