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10605_9789813226258_tp.indd 1 29/8/17 11:31 AM b2530 International Strategic Relations and China’s National Security: World at the Crossroads TTTThhhhiiiissss ppppaaaaggggeeee iiiinnnntttteeeennnnttttiiiioooonnnnaaaallllllllyyyy lllleeeefffftttt bbbbllllaaaannnnkkkk b2530_FM.indd 6 01-Sep-16 11:03:06 AM K E 10605_9789813226258_tp.indd 2 29/8/17 11:31 AM Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover photo by Emilie Ceriez Series on Knots and Everything — Vol. 60 NEW HORIZONS FOR SECOND-ORDER CYBERNETICS Copyright © 2018 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. 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ISBN 978-981-3226-25-8 Printed in Singapore EH - 10605 - New Horizons.indd 5 21-08-17 4:11:40 PM Dedicated to Ranulph Glanville (1946–2014) for his enormous efforts in promoting second-order cybernetics 00 Front.indd 5 11-07-17 10:23:39 AM b2530 International Strategic Relations and China’s National Security: World at the Crossroads TTTThhhhiiiissss ppppaaaaggggeeee iiiinnnntttteeeennnnttttiiiioooonnnnaaaallllllllyyyy lllleeeefffftttt bbbbllllaaaannnnkkkk b2530_FM.indd 6 01-Sep-16 11:03:06 AM Contents Prologue Louis H. Kauffman & Stuart A. Umpleby A Brief History of (Second-Order) Cybernetics ………………………………………………… 3 Karl H. Müller & Alexander Riegler Mapping the Varieties of Second-Order Cybernetics …………………………………………… 7 Part I: Exploring Second-Order Cybernetics and its Fivefold Agenda Stuart A. Umpleby Second-Order Cybernetics as a Fundamental Revolution in Science ……………………… 29 Allenna Leonard Obstacles and Opportunities in the Future of Second-Order Cybernetics and Other Compatible Methods ………………………………………………………………47 Gastón Becerra Connecting Second-Order Cybernetics’ Revolution with Genetic Epistemology ……………………50 Michael R. Lissack Shed the Name to Find Second-Order Success: Renaming Second-Order Cybernetics to Rescue its Essence ……………………………………53 Peter A. Cariani Beware False Dichotomies …………………………………………………………………59 Thomas R. Flanagan Second-Order Cybernetics Needs a Unifying Methodology ………………………………………62 T. Grandon Gill Viva the Fundamental Revolution! Confessions of a Case Writer ………………………………67 Stuart A. Umpleby Author’s Response: Struggling to Define an Identity for Second-Order Cybernetics ………………72 Louis H. Kauffman Cybernetics, Reflexivity and Second-Order Science …………………………………………85 vii 00 Front.indd 7 11-07-17 10:23:39 AM viii Tatjana Schönwälder-Kuntze Remarks from a Continental Philosophy Point of View …………………………………………99 Michael R. Lissack Finally Understanding Eigenforms ………………………………………………………… 102 Arthur M. Collings Eigenforms, Coherence, and the Imaginal ………………………………………………… 105 Kathleen Forsythe Conserving the Disposition for Wonder …………………………………………………… 109 Louis H. Kauffman Author’s Response: Distinction, Eigenform and the Epistemology of the Imagination …………… 113 Bernard Scott Cybernetic Foundations for Psychology ………………………………………………… 119 Vincent Kenny Wielding the Cybernetic Scythe in the Blunting Undergrowth of Psychological Confusion ……… 133 Marcelo Arnold-Cathalifaud & Daniela Thumala-Dockendorff To What Extent Can Second-Order Cybernetics Be a Foundation for Psychology? ……………… 138 Robert J. Martin The Importance – and the Difficulty – of Moving Beyond Linear Causality …………………… 140 Philip Baron Obstacles to Cybernetics Becoming a Conceptual Framework and Metanarrative in the Psychologies …………………………………………………… 145 Eva Buchinger The Social and the Psychological: Conceptual Cybernetic Unification vs Disciplinary Analysis? … 150 Tilia Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes Second Thoughts on Cybernetic Unifications ……………………………………………… 152 Lea Šugman Bohinc Cybernetics and Synergetics as Foundations for Complex Approach Towards Complexities of Life 155 Bernard Scott Author’s Response: On Becoming and Being a Cybernetician ………………………………… 158 Diana Gasparyan Consciousness as Self-Description in Differences ………………………………………… 171 Yochai Ataria On the Too Often Overlooked Complexity of the Tension between Subject and Object …………… 189 Urban Kordeš Where Is Consciousness? ………………………………………………………………… 193 00 Front.indd 8 11-07-17 10:23:39 AM ix Konstantin Pavlov-Pinus Theorizing Agents: Their Games, Hermeneutical Tools and Epistemic Resources ……………… 197 Bryony Pierce How Can Meaning be Grounded within a Closed Self-Referential System? …………………… 201 John Pickering Self-Description Alone Will not Account for Qualia ………………………………………… 205 Sergei Levin Consciousness as Self-Description and the Inescapability of Reduction ……………………… 208 Adriana Schetz The Non-Relationality of Consciousness …………………………………………………… 211 Diana Gasparyan Author’s Response: Phenomenology of the System: Intentionality, Differences, Understanding, and the Unity of Consciousness …………………… 214 Ben Sweeting Design Research as a Variety of Second-Order Cybernetic Practice ……………………… 227 Tom Scholte Design Cycles: Conversing with Lawrence Halprin ………………………………………… 239 David Griffiths Understanding Design from a Second-Order Cybernetics Perspective: Is There a Place for Material Agency? ……………………………………………………… 242 Christiane M. Herr What Can Cybernetics Learn from Design? ………………………………………………… 246 Michael Hohl Rigor in Research, Honesty and Values …………………………………………………… 249 Mateus de Sousa van Stralen Digital Design Research and Second-Order Cybernetics …………………………………… 251 Jose dos Santos Cabral Filho Cybernetics Is the Answer, but What Was the Conversation About? …………………………… 253 Andrea Jelic´ (Architectural) Design Research in the Age of Neuroscience: The Value of the Second-Order Cybernetic Practice Perspective ……………………………… 255 Ben Sweeting Author’s Response: Beyond Application …………………………………………………… 258 Tom Scholte “Black Box” Theatre: Second-Order Cybernetics and Naturalism in Rehearsal and Performance ………………… 271 00 Front.indd 9 11-07-17 10:23:39 AM x Bruce Clarke & Dorothy Chansky Audience and Autopoiesis ………………………………………………………………… 292 Bernd Porr “Truthful” Acting Emerges Through Forward Model Development …………………………… 295 Edgar Landgraf Naturalism in Improvisation and Embodiment ……………………………………………… 297 Lowell F. Christy Jr. Opening the Black Box of Minds: Theatre as a Laboratory of System Unknowns ……………… 301 Albert Müller Does Second-Order Cybernetics Provide a Framework for Theatre Studies? …………………… 305 Ben Sweeting A Theatre for Exploring the Cybernetic …………………………………………………… 307 Laurence D. Richards The Many Varieties of Experimentation in Second-Order Cybernetics: Art, Science, Craft ……… 309 Tom Scholte Author’s Response: “Playing With Dynamics”: Procedures and Possibilities for a Theatre of Cybernetics …………………………………… 312 Part II: Reflecting on the Perspectives for a Fivefold Agenda of Second-Order Cybernetics Michèle Friend Remarks of a Philosopher of Mathematics and Science ……………………………………… 327 Ronald R. Kline The Past and the Future of Second-Order Cybernetics ……………………………………… 333 Robert J. Martin Embracing Realists Without Embracing Realism: The Future of Second-Order Cybernetics ……… 339 Anthony Hodgson Some Implications of Second-Order Cybernetics …………………………………………… 349 Larry Richards New Directions in Second-Order Cybernetics ……………………………………………… 359 Epilogue Karl H. Müller, Stuart A. Umpleby & Alexander Riegler Possible Futures for Cybernetics ………………………………………………………… 375 Author Biographies ……………………………………………………………………… 381 00 Front.indd 10 11-07-17 10:23:39 AM
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