CYBERNETICS & HUMAN KNOWING

A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics & Cyber-Semiotics

Vol. 4 no. 4 1997

Contents:

Foreword

Søren Brier: Foreword (full text)

Axel Randrup: Thematic Foreword (full text)

Elaine Smith: Transubstantiation (full text)

Tetsunori Koizumi: Nature, Spirituality, and Environmental Ethics: East Meets West (abstract)

Axel Randrup: An Alternative to Materialism: Converging Evidence from Nature Spirituality and Natural Science (abstract)

Eric Schwarz: About the Possible Convergence between Science and Spirituality (abstract)

Discussion:

Pierre Marchais: On the concept of spirituality (full text)

Praxis:

Ervin Laszlo: Planetary Consciousness: Our next Evolutionary Step (full text)

Axel Randrup: Spirituality sig (full text)

Columns:

Louis H. Kauffman: Virtual Logic - The Gremlin and the Self (full text)

Ranulph Glanville: A Cybernetic Musing: In the Animal and the Machine (full text)

Reviews:

Gertrudis Van de Vijver: Signs and Systems (full text)

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With the resent issue we have reached the end of volume four and all subscriptions expire and has to be renewed. To secure on time delivery and the continuation of the journal please pay before January 10. In 1998, beginning with volume 5, the international publisher Imprint Academic will publish and distribute Cybernetics & Human Knowing! Imprint Academic is also the publisher of the renowned interdisciplinary Journal of Consciousness Studies. All subscription renewal will now go through Imprint Academic. See the enclosed brochure and the inside of the cover. We have good news. The journal will print more pages and the price outside Scandinavia will go down to $50 or £31 including mail for the annual volume of four issues.

The editorial policy will not change. Also in 1998 we will publish high quality papers in the area of the second-order cyberneties, autopoiesis theory and cybersemiotics dealing with the informational and organizational problems of the post-modern and post-industrial society from transdisciplinary angles.

The present issue is a thematic issue on cybernetics, system science and spirituality edited by Axel Randrup who is the organizer of the spirituality SIG in the International Society of System Science (ISSS). He presents the papers in his thematic foreword next page.

We continue to publish the column of Ranulph Glanville and Louis Kauffman. Glanville analyzes how cybernetics developed out of mechanicism and Kauffman continues his story on the gremlins in virtual logic and their significance for the understanding of self-reference.

Gertrudis van de Vijver reviews and discusses Jesper Hoffmeyer’s book Sign of Meaning in the Universe.

The artist of this isssue is Per Adolfsen.