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Systemic and cybernetic knowingness: relating “(a)symmetry” and “subtleness”? Project onto the contemporary complexity versus the information‐knowledge dynamics

Nicolae Bulz (National Defence College, Bucharest, Romania Center for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia)

Kybernetes

ISSN: 0368-492X

Article publication date: 7 August 2009

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present research work on systemic and cybernetic knowingness: relating according to classical and original concepts: “(a)symmetry” and “subtleness”. There is an entire project focused on contemporary complexity versus the information‐knowledge dynamics.

Design/methodology/approach

The starting point is related to the denominations: “perverse effects” and “asymmetric conflicts”. The paper supports innovative (a)symmetric approaches on human beings, ITC and community: shrinking the gap between humanist and technologist perspectives; promoting an anthropocentric perspective with stimuli from the real world expressed by (old and new) ideas regarding the (re)construction of a world/e‐world balance through/within the triad: production, intelligence and morality; and illustrating a positive e‐world response by sketching innovative, synergy‐based, experimental ITC models, considering metaphors linked to the idea of an open definition of subtleness.

Findings

The paper finds a shrinking gap between our world and our e‐world, able to integrate biased perspectives and realising a composition of (a)symmetric matter within information/knowledge economy/society. Based on semantic transfer, there is a promising path to a creative partnership between humanists and technologists within the interactive modelling: connectedness‐communication versus incursion‐anticipation. From a knowledge engineering perspective, a solution can be reached more effectively by: a Wienerian view on the information and knowledge as (a)symmetric concepts/constructs – and a dually Göedelian view on the observability and controllability of a subtle entity/system toward a wisdom and/or consciousness society.

Originality/value

This paper provides information and knowledge on “information‐knowledge dynamics” research.

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Citation

Bulz, N. (2009), "Systemic and cybernetic knowingness: relating “(a)symmetry” and “subtleness”? Project onto the contemporary complexity versus the information‐knowledge dynamics", Kybernetes, Vol. 38 No. 7/8, pp. 1121-1161. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684920910976862

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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