... Human-AI coupling Autonomous agents Second-order cybernetics “Cybernetics treats not things but ways of behaving. It does not ask ‘what is this thing?’ but ‘what does it do?’ … It is thus essentially functional and behaviouristic.” (Ashby, 1956a) via (Umpleby, 2009). The artificial...

.../methodology/approach We introduce the Ontological Meta-Structure Engine (OMSE), a second-order cybernetic architecture designed to preserve systemic integrity. Drawing on meta-ontological analysis and systems theory, OMSE implements three operational feedback mechanisms that maintain categorical coherence...

... tool for examining systems methodologies, articulates previously underexplored connections between general complexity and second-order cybernetics, and grounds reflexive practice in explicit epistemological frameworks rather than pragmatic pluralism alone. Raul Ricardo Leal Ascencio can...

... family business and business family research for explicit and tacit uses of cybernetic concepts and reconstructs these uses as indications of an underdeveloped cybernetic sensibility in the field. Building on second-order cybernetics, it then outlines abductive cybernetic theorising as a way...

...Yiannis Laouris Purpose To formalize Watzlawick, Beavin and Jackson’s pragmatics of human communication as a level-separated, testable axiom system suitable for second-order cybernetics, so that paradox, reflexivity and context-dependence are treated as phenomena to be modeled rather than...

.... Design/methodology/approach An adapted conceptual systematic review was conducted using top-cited articles and systematic literature reviews on the definition of active learning. A nine-dimensional coding frame was developed from first- and second-order cybernetics, including agentive, adaptive...

... 1970s allowed certain ideas developed for specific domains to be successfully utilized in other contexts. It underlines the power of the epistemological approaches, a significant example of which is developed within second-order cybernetics, in developing fruitful exchanges between disciplines...

...-use rights only Philosophy Self-organization Second-order cybernetics Complexity Epistemology The aim of this article is to present Heinz von Foerster's operational epistemology for understanding complexity. In the last ten years, von Foerster's theories, in particular his self...

... be contacted at: andre.oksas@gmx.de 09 09 2023 28 01 2024 25 02 2024 01 03 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Mathematics Cybernetics Second-order cybernetics Systems theory Automata theory Spencer...

... and taxi drivers are ambitious business ventures rather than simple devices to make ends meet. Decision-making Risk management Social systems Second-order cybernetics Sociology Management © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only...

...Tomaž Kolar; Iztok Kolar Purpose This paper aims to inform the promotion of sustainable modes of transport. For this purpose, it deploys a means-ends framework as a type of second-order cybernetics and uses it to explore cognitive transport mode choice structures. Design/methodology/approach...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Communications technologies Systems theory Social systems Social networks Second-order cybernetics Autopoiesis In the course of the development of his theory of society until the end of the 1990s...

... ago: The paper can help understanding how to develop and assess profiles and their impact in contemporary social contexts. The two concepts general peer and profilicity are theoretical innovations. Second-order cybernetics Public sphere Niklas Luhmann General peer Profilicity...

...Tom Scholte Concerns about the current low profile and potentially tenuous future of cybernetics across and beyond academia are seldom absent from discussions amongst cyberneticians at conferences and in print. In particular, the failure of the reflexive turn of second-order cybernetics (SOC...

... Brün’s formulations for designing social change and transformations. Cybernetics Second-order cybernetics Language Epistemology Social change Herbert Brün Composing, whenever I wish to speak of the composer’s activity and the traces left by it. - Brün (2004a) Judith Lombardi can...

...Claudia Westermann The paper identifies an aesthetics grounded in the process of living-with-others as an ethical principle implicit in second-order cybernetics thought. It is an aesthetics that is radically open for the agency of others. Linking aesthetics and ethics, the paper’s contributions...

..., a careful examination of Ashby’s journal entries (Ashby, 2008) and writings from the relevant period points in a different, intriguing direction. In the mid-1950s, Ashby’s explorations of black box theory led him to attempt to frame and solve what was essentially a second-order cybernetic problem: designing...

... accounted for owing to the influence of the researcher’s epistemology in the author’s research. This paper aims to answer the question of why a researcher should address one’s epistemology in the research. Using second-order cybernetics as an approach, observer dependence is exemplified and justified...

...Faisal L. Kadri Cybernetics Second-order cybernetics Modelling Nonlinear systems Measurement This article compares scientifically rigorous scales of physical measurements and the individual observations of animal and human behaviours which invariably involves the interpretation...

... studying workplace conflict. The results are then briefly theorised through the lens of second-order cybernetics. Data indicate significant growth in self, other and context awareness among participants. All three of these competencies can reasonably be considered components of second-order...