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In this crash course I develop the system theory, therefore it can naturally only be a crash course in a very limited sense. At the end of a crash course I want to be able to do something rather than know something. But I can only know theories, not theories. But a theory can help me to be able to say what I know. It is about reflecting my view (and my insight) in an explicit theory in such a way that I can recognize myself reflexively in my descriptions. My theory is a mirror that shows me how I understand myself and my environment.
In a non-reflected sense I always learn; the whole life is a teaching. But the point here is to remember when I learn what. In a limited sense, I call learning the conscious appropriation of new mental operations that allow me to understand my own behaviour in newly seen environments (accommodation according to Ernst von Glasersfeld). The mental operations that form my knowledge are, in a certain sense, activities that can be surgically represented in a crash course. But it is clear that a metaphor is used: the map is not the territory. You can describe the mental operations, you have to do them yourself.
| The operations are described in this crash course in the form of | abstract | and | concrete | instructions : |
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Instructions to potential systems theorists:
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General formulation of the task |
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Implementation:
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Conversion of the task into concrete executable instructions |
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Example:
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Effects of the executed statements (operations) |
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