[P2P-F] "Fourth Order Cybernetics"

[Dante-Gabryell Monson]

http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/FourthOrderCybernetics

excerpt :

Can we Define a Fourth Order System?

   - Fourth Order Cybernetics considers what happens when a system redefines
   itself.
   - It focuses on the integration of a system within its larger,
   co-defining context.


   - The 4th Order system is contextualised, embedded and integrated into
   the context
   - It can thereby become representative for the integrated context.
   - It therefore operates at two levels simultaneously.
   - It is no longer a system, but a meta-system.
   - It operates both as a system in its context, and as a system that is
   part of the context.
   - It thereby has the capacity to integrate and disintegrate the contact
   between both.
   - It is an active, interactive, reactive and ideally representative agent
   in/for/with/of that context.
   - This requires a different level of description: not in relationship to
   the system, but to the relationship between systems.
   - The Interface is now the system of reference, instead of the system.
   - This relationship is the basis of the interaction.
   - The transformation is the basis of the processing.
   - The integration is the basis of integrity.
   - The significant feature of the meta-system is its duality.
   - The essence is the same, but the relevance brings inversion.
   - The metasystem is an object; the meta-system is a subject.
   - Whereas a system can normally be described, a meta-system can only be
   experienced
   - The ‘pillars’ in this transition are the relationships (Second Order)
   and the interactions (Third Order).
   - Fourth Order Design would integrate all activities in an inverted,
   contextualised form
   - It would be embedded in its context and responsible in, and for, its
   actions
   - The system would act as meta-system and design would act as
   meta-design.
   - This represents the level of self-awareness.
   - It is where the system reflects upon itself and steers itself (i.e. is
   autopoietic).
   - These attributes facilitate self-regeneration, thus self-healing.
   - They can therefore be managed to enable a healing process.

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http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybern%C3%A9tique

science des systèmes <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syst%C3%A8me>
autorégulés<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autor%C3%A9gulation>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics

interdisciplinary <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinary> study of
the structure <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure> of regulatory
systems<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_system>
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