Abstract
While an ill-defined system may be difficult to delineate and while such delineation may not hold for all systems, the concept has a certain value when man is being considered as a skilled ‘actor’*. As Jones (1967) points out:
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Biological modes of operation are self-organising, evolutionary, growing, decaying, differentiating and self-reproducing. In all, a system of high variety. But besides its biological nature, in which ergonomie man can be described as a ‘skilled animal’, the human being is capable of conscious thoughts, he has a personality and may possess other non-material qualities which characterise his performance, which defy description in system terms and which are usually left out of calculations.
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Whiting, H.T.A. (1984). The Concepts of ‘Adaptation’ and ‘Attunement’ in Skill Learning. In: Selfridge, O.G., Rissland, E.L., Arbib, M.A. (eds) Adaptive Control of Ill-Defined Systems. NATO Conference Series, vol 16. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8941-5_14
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