Holistic cybernetics - conceived as the result of a gradually lessened `detachment of the observer´
(2008) 19th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research p.144-149- Abstract
- For help in explaining our theoretical understanding of nature, Pauli once suggested to Bohr a gradual lessening of the ‘detachment of the observer’, a notion of Bohr based on his concept of complementarity. Pauli expected
further steps in this direction. We suggest further such steps - in line with
an epistemological development towards revelation of presuppositions rather than asking for fundamental truths. When taken to the basic presuppositions for communication, we reach language in its holistic conception and cybernetic realization, namely holistic cybernetics. That is a system of two holistic languages, one communication language and one genetic language. An essential
presupposition is that the... (More) - For help in explaining our theoretical understanding of nature, Pauli once suggested to Bohr a gradual lessening of the ‘detachment of the observer’, a notion of Bohr based on his concept of complementarity. Pauli expected
further steps in this direction. We suggest further such steps - in line with
an epistemological development towards revelation of presuppositions rather than asking for fundamental truths. When taken to the basic presuppositions for communication, we reach language in its holistic conception and cybernetic realization, namely holistic cybernetics. That is a system of two holistic languages, one communication language and one genetic language. An essential
presupposition is that the communication language is shared among a population
of communicating individuals. The genetic language is responsible for this, and provides (via evolutionary adaptation) linguistic capacities that are shared (beyond complete description) among the communicating individuals.
This explains induction as beyond deduction in the communication language.
We compare holistic cybernetics with well known self-referential cybernetics (’cybernetics of cybernetics’ and second-order cybernetics). (Less)
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- Löfgren, Lars LU
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- publishing date
- 2008
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Cybernetics and Systems 2008
- editor
- Trappl, Robert
- pages
- 144 - 149
- publisher
- Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
- conference name
- 19th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
- conference location
- Vienna, Austria
- conference dates
- 2008-03-25 - 2008-03-28
- ISBN
- 978-3-85206-175-7
- project
- The Language-Communication Complex
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 91d420ce-df4b-4c7c-9691-3d857506dc22 (old id 1735095)
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