Self-steering and Cognition in Complex Systems: Toward a New CyberneticsFrancis Heylighen, Eric Rosseel, Frank Demeyere In the on-going philosophical debate between cognitivism and (radical) constructivism the pervading notions of self-reference, self- organization, self-steering, autonomy, etc., are at the forefront of discussion. These multidisciplinary papers, from a symposium on [title] held in May 1987, examine these topics in depth and illustrate their applications. Taken as a whole, they provide insight into the emergence of a new cybernetics. Book club price, $34. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
New Cybernetics and the Social Sciences | 17 |
CONTENTS | 25 |
a panel discussion | 33 |
On the Partiality of SelfReference | 47 |
NonLocality in Complex Systems | 65 |
Autonomy and Cognition as the Maintenance and Processing | 89 |
Sed Quis Custodient Ipsos Custodes? | 107 |
Notes on Self and SelfSteering | 113 |
I or We? An empirical investigation of cognitive shifts during | 231 |
Some Formal Aspects of Conversation Theory and | 240 |
Actors Actions Acts Issues and Structure | 248 |
efficiency and interactivity | 270 |
Design Methods for the Improvement of SelfSteering of Social | 282 |
Culture and Information Technologies the Cognitive Steering | 296 |
Cybernetics of Social Systems | 311 |
Bellum Omnium Contra Omnesa mathematical model | 335 |
The Art of SelfSteering | 124 |
Theory of Gestalt and SelfOrganization | 142 |
SensoryMotor Spatial Learning in Connectionist Artificial | 160 |
A Conceptual Framework to Design a Generative SelfLearning | 183 |
Interpersonal Interaction | 196 |
organizational closure | 214 |
Why Autopoiesis? Why Systems? | 353 |
From Legal Theory to Social Theory An attempt to clarify | 373 |
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Science as SelfOrganizing System | 414 |
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