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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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NEUROMORPHIC ENGINEERING 5)

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A new technology aiming at creating chips modelled in accordance with brain structures (Economist, sept.22, 2001, p. 24)

Neuromorphic engineers construct devices that contain elements functionally equivalent to neurons, axons and even "a primitive rendition of brain chemistry"(p. 24)

These devices are analog machines, not digital ones, and their output is a behavior, not a logical calculus.

The Economist's reviewer writes: "What neuromorphic engineering seeks to do is to build tools that think for themselves- making decisions the way humans do"

Besides this somewhat anthropomorphic way to express the idea, the reviewer adds: "… the neuromorphic approach may be the only way of achieving the (elusive) goal to build efficient "adaptive intelligent control systems… "

It would rather seem that this technique is leading to active and autonomous self-organizing electronic systems

The subject is closely related to so-called artificial life.

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