Computing anticipatory systems with incursion and hyperincursion

Dubois, Daniel M.

doi:10.1063/1.56331

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“…The expectations are about future states which can reflexively be made operational in the present. This use of future states in the present tends to invert the historical arrow of time locally (Coveney and Highfield 1990;Dubois 1998;Prigogine and Stengers 1988). However, this reflexive inversion operates in history and therefore leaves an empirically contingent footprint.…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Sociological and Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on the Commercialization of the Sciences

Leydesdorff

2012

Sci & Educ

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Both self-organization and organization are important for the further development of the sciences: the two dynamics condition and enable each other. Commercial and public considerations can interact and ''interpenetrate'' in historical organization; different codes of communication are then ''recombined''. However, self-organization in the symbolically generalized codes of communication can be expected to operate at the global level. The Triple Helix model allows for both a neo-institutional appreciation in terms of historical networks of university-industry-government relations and a neo-evolutionary interpretation in terms of three functions: (1) novelty production, (2) wealth generation, and (3) political control. Using this model, one can appreciate both subdynamics. The mutual information in three dimensions enables us to measure the trade-off between organization and self-organization as a possible synergy. The question of optimization between commercial and public interests in the different sciences can thus be made empirical.

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Sociological and Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on the Commercialization of the Sciences

Leydesdorff

2012

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“…However, the domains to be studied from this perspective are very different from biological or even psychological ones (Giddens, 1979). For example, it could be shown-using the logistic equation (which can be used for modeling processes of growth and decline in biology) and its equivalent formulation in the hyper-incursive domain (Dubois, 1998)-that the biological and sociological domains are separated at the value of four of the so-called bifurcation parameter, and that this separatrix can only be crossed by invoking an incursive routine, that is, a psychological cogitans or human agency (Leydesdorff & Franse, 2009). Human beings having both a body and a mind are able to participate in both domains.…”

Section: The Processing Of Meaning and The Computation Of Anticipationmentioning

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“…How can one understand the different communication processes of information, meaning, and knowledge, and their possible interactions? I shall argue that the theory and computation of anticipatory systems have provided us with means and methods to understand these processes as different in terms of recursions, incursions, and hyperincursions (Dubois, 1998); these new insights can be elaborated into empirical research about systems which generate redundancies instead of (Shannon) entropy (Leydesdorff, 2010a). Using Shannon (1948, at p. 3) provided a lucid distinction of meaning from information at the beginning of his paper entitled A Mathematical Theory of Communication:…”

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Hyperincursive Cogitata and Incursive Cogitantes: Scholarly Discourse as a Strongly Anticipatory System

Leydesdorff

2011

SSRN Journal

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Strongly anticipatory systems-that is, systems which use models of themselves for their further development-and which additionally may be able to run hyperincursive routines-that is, develop only with reference to their future states-cannot exist in res extensa, but can only be envisaged in res cogitans. One needs incursive routines of cogitantes to instantiate these systems. Unlike historical systems (with recursion), these hyper-incursive routines generate redundancies by opening horizons of other possible states. Thus, intentional systems can enrich our perceptions of the cases that have happened to occur. The perspective of hindsight codified at the above-individual level enables us furthermore to intervene technologically. The theory and computation of anticipatory systems have made these loops between supra-individual hyper-incursion, individual incursion (in instantiation), and historical recursion accessible for modeling and empirical investigation.

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“…The concepts of Rosen's anticipatory systems, has been supplemented by the ideas of incursion (inclusive or implicit recursion) and hyperincursion (incursion with multiple solutions) developed by Dubois [51].…”

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Complexity of Social Systems

Mesjasz

2010

Acta Phys. Pol. A

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The term "complexity" used frequently as a kind of "buzzword" has gained a specific role in the language of modern social sciences and social practice. A question is arising -how can we understand complexity of social systems/social phenomena which are characterized by limited possibility of explanation, unpredictability or low reliability of prediction? The aim of the paper is to provide a partial answer to this question. A survey of characteristics of complex systems and typology of various kinds of complexity, and of their sources is presented. It is also shown that broadly defined social systems (human systems) are affected by all kinds of complexitythey are "complexities of complexities". Using the typology of interpretations of complexity as an example, it is shown what are the limitations of transferring knowledge from physics, chemistry, information theory and biology to the studies of complexity of social systems. It is especially emphasized that mathematical models, which are treated as objective when applied in social sciences must be considered as an element of intersubjective discourse.

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Computing anticipatory systems with incursion and hyperincursion

Cited by 128 publications

References 11 publications

Sociological and Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on the Commercialization of the Sciences

Sociological and Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on the Commercialization of the Sciences

Hyperincursive Cogitata and Incursive Cogitantes: Scholarly Discourse as a Strongly Anticipatory System

Complexity of Social Systems

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