Acknowledgement
At the end of this monograph I would like to thank all those who have made a
significant personal contribution to the creation of this work.
I would like to thank in particular
- my mother, who, despite the modest means with which our family had to make
do, gave me an excellent education and always encouraged and supported me,
- to my wife Margitta for the patience with which she put up with the many
thousands of hours of work on this subject. This work would never have come
into being without her benevolent consent,
- my class teacher and mathematics and physics teacher, Mr. Gellendin from
Bad Doberan. He inspired me for the natural sciences, for mathematics, for
physics, for astronomy and encouraged my curiosity,
- my German and Russian teacher, Mrs. Abramowsky from Bad Doberan, who
taught me, who did not speak a word of German when I came to Germany, the
love of the German language, and who was faithful to a humanistic education
at a time when this was not a matter of course,
- my university lecturer, Prof. Porath from Güstrow, who taught me to think
in mathematical categories, directed and encouraged my curiosity, and who
saw mathematics as a means to an end
- my university lecturer, Prof. Estel from Güstrow, who gave the most
exciting lectures on physical phenomena I have ever heard in my life,
- Prof. Ihlefeld from Güstrow, who awakened my interest in psychology, and
who believed that the soul of a person is something that really exists,
- my doctoral supervisor, Prof. Hans Kaiser from Potsdam, an outstanding
systems theoretician. He taught me to look for a path of systems theoretical
explanation between cause and effect,
- to all those who, with the works, papers and contributions listed in the
bibliography, provided the facts for this theory to emerge. Expressly
included are all contributors, especially the textbooks were often written
by many experts, to whom we would also like to express our thanks.
- Finally, I would like to thank the experts Prof. Valentino Braitenberg,
Prof. Richard Hahnloser, Prof. Ulrich Ramacher, Prof. Heinz Wässle, Prof.
Karl Zilles and Prof. Günther Palm, who took up my occupation with this
topic benevolently. Unfortunately, Prof. Braitenberg was no longer allowed
to critically review this work. May others now do so for him.
Oranienburg, den 11.04.2012
Andreas Heinrich Malczan