Learning system
A learning system is a system that can adjust to the influences of the outside world and adapts to it. A system is the totality of individual elements that are related to and interact with one another.
System types
- closed system
- A closed system does not accept any external impressions and is therefore neither changeable nor adaptable.
- open system
- An open system has interfaces to its environment and interacts with it.
- learning system
- A learning system is an open system that can independently modify its properties based on its interaction with the outside world.
Examples
- domestic appliances
Today's household appliances are closed systems because they have no relationship with their environment.
- Organisms
Organisms form open systems because they have interfaces with the environment (e.g. ingestion of food or information).
- Higher living beings
Higher living beings are open, learning systems, as they can modify their properties based on the information they have received.