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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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LEARNING AS SELF-REORGANIZATION 2)3)5)

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R. NUMMELA CAINE and M. CAINE, centering their attention on knowledge acquisition, contend that: "Acquiring new natural knowledge fundamentally changes the way in which we perceive ourselves. In meaningful learning, the brain itself is reorganized, and that has consequences for the perceived self"

And: "We suggest that this process (of active uncertainty) is critical to helping the brain make maximum connections" (1994, p.137-8)

In relation to the inner perception of the sudden emergence of a new and re-arranged understanding (the so-called "aha" episodes). they add: "The emergence of the "aha" is frequently preceded by periods of uncertainty or ambiguity and hard, intrinsically motivated work requiring delay of other forms of gratification" (Ibid)

This is not only the case in learning but, possibly still more so in artistic and scientific creativity: great new concepts mostly seem to appear in flashes of sudden insight… duly prepared by a long period of frustrating and obscure useless trials and errors. Many great scientists have given their testimony on this.

→ also: Self-reorganization

Categories

  • 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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