Testamentul dr. Ștefan Odobleja pentru tineri – despre creație, invățare și organizarea minții
Ștefan Odobleja’s testament for young people – about creation, learning and the organisation of the mind

Summary/Abstract: In this article we will describe the contribution of the Romanian scientist Dr. Ștefan Odobleja (1902–1978) to the definition of the needs for the training of young people to build a strong country. In a genuine testament for young people, Odobleja explains the following needs that young people have to take into account: the need for creation, the need for learning, the need to solve problems, the need to organize one’s mind, the need for diversified work, the need to discipline their senses and imagination, to use experiments, the need for classification, comparison, analysis and synthesis, the need for living logically. Odebleja’s contributions are all the more important if one takes into acount that he is considered to be a physician, because they have cre ated ideas and concepts complementary to some ideas introduced by N. Wiener. It can be appreciated that during 1920–1940 the ideas and studies on Cybernetics appeared, the science that laid the systems con cept (for the man and the machine), the structure of the systems (control and communication between the components of a system), which led to the construction of the computing system (computer system). Dr. Ștefan Odobleja was recognized as a precursor of Cybernetics at the 4th International Cybernetics Congress, held in Amsterdam in August1978. His Communication „Diversity and Unity in Cybernetics” was pre sented at the Congress by Dr. Stelian Bajureanu. After the presentation of Odobleja’s work, the participants chanted „40 Years of Cybernetics,” although they were celebrating „30 Years of Cybernetics” and mathema tician Norbert Wiener. Studying and researching the processes in the human body, Dr. Ștefan Odobleja defines and studies various concepts for the functioning of the human body organs through coordination by the human brain, intuiting that it can reach the „mechanisation of thought” and that the „psychic machine” would be invented.

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