second-order cybernetics

is the cybernetics of cybernetics. A form of cybernetics which investigates cybernetics with the awareness that investigators necessarily affect and are affected by any systems they observe.

IT a 'the cybernetics of cybernetics, investigates the construction of models of cybernetic systems. It investigates cybernetics with awareness that the investigators are part of the system, and of the importance of self-referentiality, self-organizing, the subject-object problem, etc. Investigators of a system can never see how it works by standing outside it because the investigators are always engaged cybernetically with the system being observed... that is, when investigators observe a system, they affect and are affected by it.' wikipedia Ihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order cybernetics#cite note-oikos-1 nterview with Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, CoEvolution Quarterly, June 1973. http://www.oikos.org/forgod.htm

second order cybernetics, n.Definitions

second order cybernetics