03061nam 2200589Ia 450 991078329010332120230617020324.01-280-51442-697866105144271-84544-179-6(CKB)1000000000018362(EBL)231830(OCoLC)61363480(SSID)ssj0000465450(PQKBManifestationID)11283718(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000465450(PQKBWorkID)10439067(PQKB)10141287(MiAaPQ)EBC231830(Au-PeEL)EBL231830(CaPaEBR)ebr10069032(CaONFJC)MIL51442(OCoLC)133160210(EXLCZ)99100000000001836220000815d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDeveloping second order cybernetics[electronic resource] /Guest editor Dr. Bernard ScottBradford, England Emerald Group Publishingc20041 online resource (205 p.)Kybernetes: the international journal of systems & cybernetics ;v.33, no. 9/10Description based upon print version of record.1-84544-015-3 Contents; Abstracts and Keywords; Preface; Guest Editor's introduction; Second-order cybernetics; The purpose of second-order cybernetics; Reminiscences of McCulloch and Pitts and some others; Questions about constructivism; Remarks on the foundations of cybernetics and cognitive science; Self-organisation as quality control in inquiry; Essential structure in physical observation; Axioms from interactions of actors theory; Cognitive and neuropsychological basis for quantum mechanics; Approximation of multiple integrals by simple integrals involving periodic functionskth-order Markov chain-based approximation of the Shannon entropy of Gaussian photon-counting processesA cybernetical analysis of entities in multilevel systems; Asymptotic behaviour and statistical applications of weighted (h,p)-divergences; Twenty-first century; Book reviews; News, conferences and technical reports; Special announcementsSpecial double issue: developing second order cybernetics - a collection of papers from the UK Cybernetics Society Guest Editor: Bernard Scott This special double issue is based on the presentations made at a conference with the theme "Second Order Cybernetics (SOC)", which had been organised by the UK Cybernetics Society in London in 2002.Previously published in: International Journal of Systems & Cybernetics, Volume 33, Number 9/10, 2004CyberneticsSystems engineeringCybernetics.Systems engineering.301.018Scott Bernard964388MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783290103321Developing second order cybernetics3757347UNINA