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an 1893 Popular Science article predicted..
"...the measurements and statistics of psychology..may in the end become the most important factor in the progress of society".
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Googling : Minds, Measures and Machines: The Materialization of Psychological Ideas
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In 1960 Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901--1972) was appointed a Professor for Theoretical Biology of the Department of Zoology and Psychology at the University of Alberta (Canada).
There along with the psychologist Royce and the philosopher Tenneysen, he established the Advanced Center for Theoretical Psychology that became a center for cognitive psychology over the next 30 years.
In that time his system theoretical approach focused on the modern world of technology that has thrown us humans out of nature and has isolated us from each other.
To overcome this Vereinzelung, Bertalanffy emphasized in his later works the importance of the symbolic worlds of culture which we ourselves have created during evolution.
After his retirement he became a Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the State University of New York (SUNY).
An international symposium celebrated his 70th birthday in 1971. In June 1972, he suffered a heart stroke and died a few days later, on June 12, shortly after midnight.
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