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... function with respect to environment ( feedback ) , to use Wiener's definition of cybernetics . - - As mentioned , internal and external descriptions largely coin- cide with descriptions by continuous or discrete functions . These are ...
... function with respect to environment ( feedback ) , to use Wiener's definition of cybernetics . - - As mentioned , internal and external descriptions largely coin- cide with descriptions by continuous or discrete functions . These are ...
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... functions , as a rule , decline in mental 1 patients . Thus Karl Menninger ( 1963 ) was able to describe the ... functions generally progress from a syncretic state where percepts , motivation , feeling , imagery , symbols , concepts ...
... functions , as a rule , decline in mental 1 patients . Thus Karl Menninger ( 1963 ) was able to describe the ... functions generally progress from a syncretic state where percepts , motivation , feeling , imagery , symbols , concepts ...
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... functions ; essential aggression ( von Bertalanffy , 1958 ) ; conscience , superego , ego ideal , values , morals , dissimulation , truth and lying - all these stem from the root of creative symbolic universes and can therefore not be ...
... functions ; essential aggression ( von Bertalanffy , 1958 ) ; conscience , superego , ego ideal , values , morals , dissimulation , truth and lying - all these stem from the root of creative symbolic universes and can therefore not be ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 29 |
Limitations | 38 |
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