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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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EDUCATION 1)4)

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The process of acquiring or transmitting the condition of becoming and being a biologically, psychologically, mentally and socially well integrated person.

What must be obtained through education is an adaptive set of values, norms and habits tending toward the avoidance of dangerously incoherent or conflictive situations at any level (in J.G. MILLER's sense of the systemic levels of complexity, from organism on) or, when unavoidable, be able to make the necessary adjustments in the best possible way.

Education is at the same time a personal and a societal responsability. It supposes a progressive training at the different levels of the nervous system, and particularly, the different brain levels. As adaptive change is becoming ever more necessary for the individual and in social systems, the historic rigidity in values, norms and habits is becoming inadequate. Education should now include the understanding of change in natural and human environments and the conditions and ways of obtaining a better fit when needed.

It should thus tend to adaptive and permanent autonomous self-regulation through the frequent critical review of one's frames of reference.

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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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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