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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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If a network is repeatedly disturbed by a regular "stimulus" or by a statistically homogeneous "noise", it will tend to set its switches so that it is less, rather than more, disturbed by it (W.R. ASHBY, 1960, p.5.).

"The property has been demonstrated on the homeostat (Ibid)…

"It depends on the fact that patterns that are much disturbed by the stimulus will have a large chance of being disrupted, while those that are little disturbed will have only a small chance of being disrupted. Every stimulus or noise thus tends differentially to disrupt these patterns that are specially sensitive to it. The end-result is that the machine tends, if repeatedly stimulated, to become unresponsive to the stimulus" (1958, p.5).

ASHBY states:" In the cerebral cortex this phenomenon has been long known as "habituation". It is in fact not restricted to the cerebral cortex but can be observed in every tissue that is capable of learning" (p.5).

In human systems, a similar process leads to routine-like behavior.

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