Second order Cybernetics considers the impact that the observer has on the system being observed.... as such it covers all most all aspects of human endeavor.
In effect, those involved in second order cybernetics have turned the principles of cybernetics upon the field of cybernetics itself. In order to qualify as second-order cybernetics, the observer of a system must be described and explained -- the explanation can not be based purely on the system observed as if the observer did not exist.
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The how , why and whereof this Lens
to be determind Connective Summary
Second Order Cybernetics Macrosope: a brief guide to the infinitely complex
Relevant Links
- Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics
- in R.A. Meyers (ed.), Encyclopedia of Physical Science & Technology (3rd ed.), (Academic Press, New York,
2001). - Ethics and Second-order Cybernetics
- Opening address for the International Conference, Systems and Family Therapy: Ethics, Epistemology, New Methods, held in Paris, France, October 4th, 1990, by Heinz von Foerster
- What Comes after second order cybernetics?
- By Stuart A. Umpleby
"In recent years the field of cybernetics has been described as consisting of two bodies of work created in two time periods: first order cybernetics from the late 1940s until about 1975, and second order cybernetics from the mid 1970s to the present. Each period lasted about 25 years. What comes next? I shall describe here what I think comes next and how the new point of view emerged, at least in my own thinking." - The Rise of Second-order Cybernetics
- New Order from Old: The Rise of Second-Order Cybernetics and Implications for Machine Intelligence by Paul Pangaro
"The following manuscript holds an overview of cybernetics from a personal perspective, including detailed sections on differences between the worldviews of cybernetics and artificial intelligence; entailment meshes as a knowledge representation scheme; and the architecture of conversations. It was written based on a presentation given at a conference of the American Society for Cybernetics in Vancouver, BC, Canada and, as such, may prove a difficult read without some familiarity with cybernetic concepts." October 2002 - Complex Events (CEP) : CEP home page
- A Guide to Complex Event Processing with Cybernetiics
- Cybernetics of Cybernetics
- HEINZ VON FOERSTER
University of Illinois, Urbana
1979 - The purpose of second-order cybernetics
- "In this paper, the origins of second-order Cybernetics are sketched, and are particularly identified with circularity: a quality that was at the basis of the studies that lead to the creation of the field of Cybernetics. The implications of the new analysis that second-order Cybernetics (Cybernetics treated cybernetically: that is, Cybernetics when circularity is taken seriously) gives rise to are considered in terms of the two qualities that Wiener gave to Cybernetics in his eponymous book - control and communication. Finally, the analysis is applied to that other proto-cybernetic concept, purpose. It is shown that (and in consequence how) the notion of goal and purpose must be radically reconsidered in second-order Cybernetic systems."
Related Lenses
- Cybernetics
- DHC Soul lens on Cybernetics
- k1 and k2 General Cybernetics
- DHC Soul lens on General Cybernetics
- Systems Science
- DHC Soul lens on Systems Science
- Systems Thinking
- DHC Soul on Systems Thinking
- General Systems Theory
- DHC Lens on General Systems Theory
Other Cybernetic Links
- Cybernetics & Human Knowing
- A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis and Cyber-Semiotics.
- Luis E. Bastias
- Contributions to the development of Valparaiso's Autopoiesis Theory
- Chilean School of Biology of Cognition
- Offering overview of Maturana's contributions to psychology, 'Ask Professor Maturana', and online archive editions of important articles.
- Radical Constructivism
- The most comprehensive Webspace on constructivist epistemology (a component of the second-order cybernetics worldview), especially the work of von Glasersfeld and von Foerster
