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Vörös S. (2014) The Uroboros of Consciousness: Between the Naturalisation of Phenomenology and the Phenomenologisation of Nature. Constructivist Foundations 10(1): 96–104. https://cepa.info/1173
Vörös S.
(
2014
)
The Uroboros of Consciousness: Between the Naturalisation of Phenomenology and the Phenomenologisation of Nature.
Constructivist Foundations
10(1): 96–104.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/1173
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Context:
The burgeoning field of consciousness studies has recently witnessed a revival of first-person approaches based on phenomenology in general and Husserlian phenomenology in particular. However, the attempts to introduce phenomenological methods into cognitive science have raised serious doubts as to the feasibility of such projects. Much of the current debate has revolved around the issue of the naturalisation of phenomenology, i.e., of the possibility of integrating phenomenology into the naturalistic paradigm. Significantly less attention has been devoted to the complementary process of the phenomenologisation of nature, i.e., of a (potentially radical) transformation of the theoretical and existential underpinnings of the naturalist framework.
Problem:
The aim of this article is twofold. First, it provides a general overview of the resurgence of first-person methodologies in cognitive sciences, with a special emphasis on a circular process of naturalising phenomenology and phenomenologising nature. Secondly, it tries to elucidate what theoretical (conceptual) and practical (existential) implications phenomenological approaches might have for the current understanding of nature and consciousness.
Results:
It is argued that, in order for the integration of phenomenological and scientific approaches to prove successful, it is not enough merely to provide a firm naturalistic grounding for phenomenology. An equally, if not even more important, process of phenomenological contextualisation of science must also be considered, which might have far-reaching implications for its theoretical underpinnings (move from disembodied to embodied models) and our existential stance towards nature and consciousness (cultivation of a non-dual way of being.
Implications:
The broader theoretical framework brought about by the circular exchange between natural sciences and phenomenology can contribute to a more holistic conception of science, one that is in accord with the cybernetic idea of
second-order
science and based on a close interconnection between (abstract) reflection and (lived) experience.
Constructivist content:
The (re)introduction of first-person approaches into cognitive science and consciousness studies evokes the fundamental circularity that is characteristic of
second-order
cybernetics. It provides a rich framework for a dialogue between science and lived experience, where scientific endeavour merges with the underlying existential structures, while the latter remains reflectively open to scientific findings and proposals.
Key words:
Cognitive science
,
phenomenology
,
first-person approaches
,
naturalisation
,
phenomenologisation
,
lived experience
,
non-dualism
Wene C.-O. (2015) A cybernetic view on learning curves and energy policy. Kybernetes 44(6/7): 852–865.
Wene C.-O.
(
2015
)
A cybernetic view on learning curves and energy policy.
Kybernetes
44(6/7): 852–865.
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Purpose:
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that cybernetic theory explains learning curves and sets the curves as legitimate and efficient tools for a pro-active energy technology policy. Design/methodology/approach – The learning system is a non-trivial machine that is kept in non-equilibrium steady state at minimum entropy production by competitive, equilibrium markets. The system has operational closure and the learning curve expresses its eigenbehaviour. This eigenbehaviour is analysed not in calendar time but in the characteristic time of the system, i.e., its eigentime. Measured in eigentime, the minimum entropy production in the steady-state learning system is constant. The double closure mechanism described by Heinz von Förster makes it possible for the learning system to change (adapt) its eigenbehaviour without compromising its operational closure.
Findings:
By obeying basic laws of
second order
cybernetics and of non-equilibrium thermodynamics the learning system self-organises its learning to follow an optimal path described by the learning curve. The learning rates are obtained through an operator formalism and the results explain observed distributions. Application to solar cell (photo-voltaic) modules indicates that the silicon scarcity bubble 2005–2008 produced excess entropy corresponding to costs of the order of 100 billion US dollars. Research limitations/implications: Grounding technology learning and learning curves in cybernetics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics open up new possibilities to understand technology shifts through radical innovations or paradigm changes.
Practical implications:
Learning curves are legitimate and efficient tools for energy policy and industrial strategy. Originality/value – Grounding of technology learning and learning curves in cybernetic and thermodynamic theory provides a stable theoretical basis for applications in industry and policy.
Key words:
eigenbehavior
,
learning curves
,
…
Westermann C. (2011) Resonances of the unknown. Kybernetes 40(7/8): 1189–1195.
Westermann C.
(
2011
)
Resonances of the unknown.
Kybernetes
40(7/8): 1189–1195.
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Purpose:
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relevance of
second-order
cybernetics for a theory of architectural design and related discourse.
Approach:
First, the relation of architectural design to the concept of “poiesis” is clarified. Subsequently, selected findings of Gotthard Günther are revisited and related to an architectural poetics. The last part of the paper consists of revisiting ideas mentioned previously, however, on the level of a discourse that has incorporated the ideas and offers a poetic way of understanding them.
Findings:
Gotthard Günther’s conception of “You” is specifically valuable in reference to a theory of architectural design in the sense of an architectural poetics. Originality – The research furthers the field of architecture by contributing to it a new theory in the form of an architectural poetics. It addresses questions of design with a procedural framework in which critical engagement is an intrinsic principle, and offers an alternative to existing discourses through a poetry of architectonic order that is open to the future.
Relevance:
Second order
approaches are at the center of discussion in this paper. The paper argues for a new theory of design based on
second order
approaches.
Westermann C. (2018) On delight: Thoughts for tomorrow. Technoetic Arts 16(1): 43–51. https://cepa.info/7742
Westermann C.
(
2018
)
On delight: Thoughts for tomorrow.
Technoetic Arts
16(1): 43–51.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/7742
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The article introduces the problematics of the classical two-valued logic on which Western thought is generally based, outlining that under the conditions of its logical assumptions the subject I is situated in a world that it cannot address. In this context, the article outlines a short history of cybernetics and the shift from first- to
second-order
cybernetics. The basic principles of Gordon Pask’s 1976 Conversation Theory are introduced. It is argued that this
second-order
theory grants agency to others through a re-conception of living beings as You logically transcending the I. The key principles of Conversation Theory are set in relation to the poetic forms of discourse that played a key role in art as well as philosophical thinking in China in the past.
Second-order
thinking, the article argues, is essentially poetic. It foregoes prediction in favour of the potentiality of encountering tomorrow’s delights.
Key words:
china
,
conversation theory
,
aesthetics
,
art
,
poetics
,
second-order cybernetics
Westermann C. (2020) The art of conversation: Design cybernetics and its ethics. Kybernetes 49(8): 2171–2183. https://cepa.info/7542
Westermann C.
(
2020
)
The art of conversation: Design cybernetics and its ethics.
Kybernetes
49(8): 2171–2183.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/7542
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Purpose:
The purpose of this paper to discuss ethical principles that are implicit in
second-order
cybernetics, with the aim of arriving at a better understanding of how
second-order
cybernetics frames living in a world with others. It further investigates implications for
second-order
cybernetics approaches to architectural design, i.e. the activity of designing frameworks for living. Design/methodology/approach – The paper investigates terminology in the
second-order
cybernetics literature with specific attention to terms that suggest that there are ethical principles at work. It further relates
second-order
cybernetics to selected notions in phenomenology, pragmatism and transcendental idealism. The comparison allows for conclusions about the specificity of a
second-order
inquiry. In line with the thematic focus of this journal issue on the framing of shared worlds, the paper further elaborates on questions relating to the activity of designing “worlds” in which people live with others.
Findings:
The paper highlights that a radical openness toward the future and toward the agency of others is inscribed in the conception of
second-order
cybernetics. It creates a frame of reference for conceiving social systems of all kinds, including environments that are designed to be inhabited. Originality/value – 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 will be of specific value for practitioners and theoreticians of design. Considering
second-order
cybernetics as a practice generally dealing with designing, it also contributes to the wider
second-order
cybernetics discourse.
Wolfe C. (1994) Making contingency safe for liberalism: The pragmatics of epistemology in Rorty and Luhmann. New German Critique 61: 101–127. https://cepa.info/2770
Wolfe C.
(
1994
)
Making contingency safe for liberalism: The pragmatics of epistemology in Rorty and Luhmann.
New German Critique
61: 101–127.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/2770
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Excerpt:
What must immediately surprise any reader new to the discourses of systems theory or what is sometimes called “
second-order
cybernetics” is the rather systematic reliance of this new theoretical paradigm on the figure of vision and, more specifically, observation. That surprise might turn into discomfort if not alarm for readers in the humanities who cut their teeth on the critical genealogy of vision and the look which runs, in its modernist incarnation, from Freud’s discourse on vision in Civilization and Its Discontents through Sartre’s Being and Nothingness to Lacan’s seminars and finally to recent influential work in psychoanalysis and feminist film theory. With the possible exception of Michel Foucault, no recent intellectual has done more to call into question the trope of vision than America’s foremost pragmatist philosopher, Richard Rorty. From his ground-breaking early work Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature onward, Rorty has argued that the figure of vision in the philosophical and critical tradition is indissolubly linked with representationalism and realism, where representationalism assumes that “making true’ and ‘representing’ are reciprocal relations: the nonlinguistic item which makes S true is the one represented by S, ” and realism maintains the “idea that inquiry is a matter of finding out the nature of something which lies outside the web of beliefs and desires, ” in which “the object of inquiry – what lies outside the organism – has a context of its own, a context which is privileged by virtue of being the object’s rather than the inquirer’s.” Instead, Rorty argues, we should reduce this desire for objectivity to a search for “solidarity” and embrace a philo-sophical holism of the sort found in Dewey, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, which holds that “words take their meanings from other words rather than by virtue of their representative character” and “transparency to the real.” Hence, Rorty rejects the representationalist position and its privileged figure, and argues instead that “Our only usable notion of ‘objectivity’ is ‘agreement’ rather than mirroring."
Key words:
Luhmann
,
Rorty
,
Habermas
,
Žižek
,
Maturana
,
Varela
,
closure
Wolski P. (2007) Metacomparison: Comparative studies as a self-feedback system. Porównania 4: 39–51. https://cepa.info/893
Wolski P.
(
2007
)
Metacomparison: Comparative studies as a self-feedback system.
Porównania
4: 39–51.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/893
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In order to obtain, as the author himself puts it, “a successful internalisation of the comparative metadiscourse” necessary for “the survival of comparative literature,” the author refers to constructivism by noticing crucial similarities between the two directions in terms of their historical development and character. The author does not agree with the accusation of the secondary status of comparative research in relation to other fields of science. He points to the fact that the existence of a rich comparative metadiscourse, which implies analogy with constructivism and accounts for the status of comparative studies as an important area of research, is omitted.
Relevance:
By means of referring to Niklas Luhman, the author identifies comparative studies with
second-order
observation, that is, focusing not on the objects of comparative studies (those seem to be as numerous and various as the reality surrounding the human being), but on the nature of the comparative process, in other words on the manner in which the comparison of the above mentioned objects is carried out.
Key words:
Constructivism
,
crisis of comparative literature
,
metadiscourse
,
metatheory
,
Niklas Luhmann
,
multiculturalism
Woog R. & Hodge B. (2000) The life cycle of a postmodern paradigm: social ecology as a case study in second-order cybernetics. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 7(4): 27–41.
Woog R.
&
Hodge B.
(
2000
)
The life cycle of a postmodern paradigm: social ecology as a case study in
second-order
cybernetics.
Cybernetics & Human Knowing
7(4): 27–41.
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This paper examines the interdependence between paradigms and pedagogy. This relationship is explored by looking at the lifecycle of a transdisciplinary academic program, called Social Ecology. A number of intellectual themes emerge from the exploration, and their influence on pedagogic organisation and practice is discussed. The themes include the process of paradigm formation, the relevance of transdisciplinary courses (as against disciplinary or interdisciplinary courses) of study under postmodern conditions, and the appropriateness of
second-order
cybernetics in validating and organising transdisciplinary courses. The process of transdisciplinary paradigm formation and the differentiation of such a paradigm from a traditional Kuhnian perspective is discussed. The paper concludes with the proposition that a knowledge of
second-order
cybernetics would create a much more liberal climate in the academy, where the self-organising and changing nature of a complex, transdisciplinary, pedagogic paradigm, like Social Ecology, could be recognisable and thinkable.
Zimmermann R. E. (2014) On the Clarification of System Levels. Constructivist Foundations 10(1): 60–62. https://cepa.info/1164
Zimmermann R. E.
(
2014
)
On the Clarification of System Levels.
Constructivist Foundations
10(1): 60–62.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/1164
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Open peer commentary on the article “The Circular Conditions of
Second-order
Science Sporadically Illustrated with Agent-based Experiments at the Roots of Observation” by Manfred Füllsack.
Upshot:
I follow the general tenor of Füllsack’s target article but I have some basic reservations as to the utilization of the thermodynamics involved.
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