<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/FourthOrderCybernetics">http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/FourthOrderCybernetics</a></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>excerpt :</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; "><h2 class="showhide_heading" id="Can_we_Define_a_Fourth_Order_System_" style="font-size: 23px; color: rgb(0, 153, 204); margin-top: 0.3em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; ">
Can we Define a Fourth Order System?</h2><ul style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 1.8em; "><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">
Fourth Order Cybernetics considers what happens when a system redefines itself.</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">
It focuses on the integration of a system within its larger, co-defining context.</li></ul></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><ul style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 1.8em; ">
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">The 4th Order system is contextualised, embedded and integrated into the context</li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">It can thereby become representative for the integrated context.</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">
It therefore operates at two levels simultaneously.</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">It is no longer a system, but a meta-system.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">It operates both as a system in its context, and as a system that is part of the context.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">It thereby has the capacity to integrate and disintegrate the contact between both.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">It is an active, interactive, reactive and ideally representative agent in/for/with/of that context.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">This requires a different level of description: not in relationship to the system, but to the relationship between systems.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">The Interface is now the system of reference, instead of the system.</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">
This relationship is the basis of the interaction.</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">The transformation is the basis of the processing.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">The integration is the basis of integrity.</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">
The significant feature of the meta-system is its duality.</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">The essence is the same, but the relevance brings inversion.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">The metasystem is an object; the meta-system is a subject.</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">
Whereas a system can normally be described, a meta-system can only be experienced</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">
The �pillars� in this transition are the relationships (Second Order) and the interactions (Third Order).</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">
Fourth Order Design would integrate all activities in an inverted, contextualised form</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">
It would be embedded in its context and responsible in, and for, its actions</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">The system would act as meta-system and design would act as meta-design.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">This represents the level of self-awareness.</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">
It is where the system reflects upon itself and steers itself (i.e. is autopoietic).</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">
These attributes facilitate self-regeneration, thus self-healing.</li><li style="list-style-image: url(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/styles/utopias/options/attainable/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; ">They can therefore be managed to enable a healing process.</li>
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