Kybernetes: Volume 33 Issue 9/10
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
Second‐order cybernetics: an historical introduction
Bernard ScottIn 1974, Heinz von Foerster articulated the distinction between a first‐ and second‐order cybernetics, as, respectively, the cybernetics of observed systems and the cybernetics of…
The purpose of second‐order cybernetics
Ranulph GlanvilleIn 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…
Reminiscences of McCulloch and Pitts and some others
Alex M. AndrewThese are recollections of a fruitful and colourful period in the mid‐1950s when the speaker was fortunate to have the opportunity to spend some time with the group around Warren…
Questions about constructivism
Alex M. AndrewA number of observations are made about the nature of constructivism, with the suggestion that it is a less revolutionary development that has been claimed, and that some accounts…
Remarks on the foundations of cybernetics and cognitive science
Petros A.M. GelepithisThe paper states that cybernetics has failed to live up to its dream as an interdisciplinary field unifying all the phenomena within the vast space of animals and machines. It…
Self‐organisation as quality control in inquiry
Gerard de ZeeuwKnowledge is defined as the result of successful attempts to transfer expected effort in the future to effort spent in the present. The less effort remains to be spent in the…
Essential structure in physical observation
Anthony G. BoothAt the heart of any process of observation there are certain basic things which must happen. These might be analysed in abstract terms, or then again in terms of the quantum…
Axioms from interactions of actors theory
Nick GreenWhile working with clients in the last years of his life, Gordon Pask produced an axiomatic scheme for his Interactions of Actors Theory which is a development of his well known…
Cognitive and neuropsychological basis for quantum mechanics: Part II. Quantum‐mechanical behaviour of macroscopic object
Uri FidelmanThe two stages of visual perception according to the models of visual search, the preattentional and the attentional, are presented. The first stage is related to the left…
Approximation of multiple integrals by simple integrals involving periodic functions
A. Benabidallah, Y. Cherruault, G. MoraIn this paper, we consider problems of numerical integration of fast oscillatory functions of one variable, obtained by using α‐dense curves and approximating multiple integrals…
kth‐order Markov chain‐based approximation of the Shannon entropy of Gaussian photon‐counting processes
Bonawentura KochelA method for approximation of the Shannon entropy of Gaussian photon‐counting processes with infinite history was constructed on the memory function of these processes, described…
A cybernetical analysis of entities in multilevel systems
Miguel Lloret‐Climent, Jose Luis Bonnet‐JerezDescribes issues relevant to multilevel systems and, as a particular case, living systems analysed from the entities point of view. As attributes, behaviours, sub‐systems, etc.…
Asymptotic behaviour and statistical applications of weighted (h, φ) – divergences
E. Landaburu, L. PardoWeighted (h,φ) – divergence statistics are obtained by either replacing both distributions involved in the argument by their nonparametric estimators or replacing one distribution…
Twenty‐first century – the beginning of human immortality
Alexander BolonkinImmortality is the most cherished dream and the biggest wish of any person. People seldom think about it while they are still young, healthy, and full of energy. But when they get…
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- Prof. Dr. Gandolfo Dominici