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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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ENGRAM 5)

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1) Trace left in the brain by a past event (French Robert Dictionary)

2) The neurological change in the brain that occurs during the process of memory creation (J. BRYANT, 1991, p. 114)

The American Heritage Dictionary (Amer. Her. Dict.) defines the engram as "a persistent protoplasmic alteration hypothesized to occur on stimulation of living neural tissue and to account for memory"

Interestingly BRYANT comments that: "… since the histological details of most human brains vary among one another in many ways which are not due to learning, it seems likely that the engram which represents a certain bit of information in one individual may be quite different from the engram that represents the same bit of information in some other individual. Thus if two people have knowledge of the "same fact", we should not therefore assume that they possess identical engrams, but rather that there exists a specific correspondence between certain neural networks of the two brains" (p. 114) Let us hope so!

→ Memory; Perception; Representation

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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