CYBERNETICS & HUMAN KNOWING

Contents:

 Søren Brier: Foreword Full text

Peter Bøgh Andersen: WWW as self-organizing system Abstract

Joy Murray: Information, Communication and Technology: What can second order cybernetics contribute to the literacy debate Abstract

Erminia Vaccari: Knowledge as Modelling Abstract

Louis H. Kauffman: Virtual Logic - Self Reference and The Calculus of Indications Abstract

Ranulph Glanville: A (Cybernetic) Musing: The Gestation of Second Order Cybernetics, 1968-1975 - A Personal Account Full text

Knowledge as Modelling

Abstract: Starting from the assumption that we know something when we can model it, this paper focuses on a specific methodology for modelling problems of organised complexity. The methodology might be useful for studying cognitive processes and might be seen as analogous to the natural activity performed by people every day in the course of their lives, that is: how the observer actively constructs what he/she perceives. Cognition is then seen as the result of modelling based on the internal states of a cognitive system in continuous evolution under its interaction with its environment.