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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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HEBB's RULE 2)

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"…a synaptic connection that is used often will increase its strength so that the probability that it will be used later on increases".

This rule, quoted by F. HEYLIGHEN (1990b), may seemingly be extended to any type of learning network, able to learn by experience. It is however ambiguous, since it may lead the network into a rut, as in Pavlovian and Skinnerian conditioning.

St. KAUFFMAN describes this situation: "… a difficulty with most versions of the Hebbian synapse is that the system tends to dig itself into a Hebbian hole deep in the solid regime. Attractors tend to become too deeply grooved into the system. This embedding may inhibit flexible learning by trapping the system too readily in suboptimal responses" (1993, p.229).

This could be called the grooving problem and its possible relation to organizational closure should be investigated. This could even be significant in social systems.

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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