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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 MODEL 3)

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A cognitive model is in fact an intricate array of interconnected functional characteristics of the human brain directed at the understanding of so-called "reality". The model would depend on specific modes of perception; ways to construct internal frames of references; memory (a set of devices to store such frames in a more or less permanent way);; probably inner imaging and languages to communicate with other observers.

The comparative value of different cognitive models is a controversial matter under at least three aspects:

- Different cultures understand cognition in different ways. Acupuncture and ayurvedic medicine are examples as compared to western medicine

- Religion based models of cognition cannot be equated to rational and scientific models. There are no unquestionable comparative evaluations of bouddhist psychology, hindouist yoga, coranic or christian teachings

- Even scientific cognitive models have evolved deeply in the western world for example from rational and linear causality and Cartesian method to-let us say-cybernetic nonlinearity, so called holism, autopoietic closure, Popperian refutation and/or Heisenberg's indeterminacy (among others)

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Categories

  • 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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