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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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INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTICS 1)4)

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The famous controversy about Lamarckian inheritance of acquired characteristics has never been definitively settled.

We need an explanation about the: "… process whereby the newer inventions of adaptive behavior are sunk deeper into the biological system of the organism", as stated by G. BATESON. (1973, p.225)

→ ("Archetype").

In cultural systems among humans (and possibly among some social superior animals) the model of transmission of knowledge and behaviors from one generation to the following through imprinting, training and learning (KORZYBSKI's time binding) seems to be satisfactory. It is even possible that this phenomenon inspired the very Lamarckian concept.

On the other hand, no convincing mechanism of inheritance of phenotypically acquired biological characters, other than genetic mutations, has yet been found.

Observations of social animals seems to indicate that only individually acquired information can be transmitted, by imitation, or learning.

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

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