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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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FEEDBACK (Self-normative) 1)

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A learning process by which the trainee corrects and restricts its or his/her repertory of actions by perception of its or his/her own performance.

A bird who is learning to sing "must be able to hear itself during the motor development phase (period during which it produces a "pre-song"). If it is deprived of hearing before the beginning of the "pre-song", it cannot harmonize its vocal production with what it recorded of its species one. It can then produce only a variable song, unstructured and devoid of all the characteristics proper of its species" (J.W. CLARK, 1972, p.468).

This seems to be a very general feature of learning, as shown for example by the inhability of the "wolf-children" to learn correctly a human language when isolated from humans for too long a period. It seems also to be related to the concept of constraint (ASHBY): any learning is at least in some respects a constraining algorithmization of potentially much more extended capabilities.

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  • 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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