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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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A computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine.

This program was created in 1966 by J. WEIZENBAUM (1976). It is able: "… to mimic a non-directive psychotherapist interacting with a "patient".

The following comment by M. RINGLE puts "ELIZA" in perspective (in accordance, it should be observed with WEIZENBAUM's own ironic viewpoint): "A.I. workers have often sought to build computer simulations which operate on superficial behavioral similarities to natural intelligence, rather than on the underlying cognitive structures. A good example of this is WEIZENBAUM's "ELIZA". ELIZA will, at least for a short time, give the impression of a sophisticated semantic analyzer-and-synthetizer. After a while, however, the impression will diminish as ELIZA repeats stock phrases in order to acquire more syntactic informations. In fact, ELIZA is simply a clever syntactic device, a "conversation-continuer" which lacks a semantic interpreter altogether" (1976, p.9).

In this case programed "parrot speak" has been made clearly different from artificial intelligence, at least if one admits that artificial intelligence could be not purely algorithmic.

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

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