Directionality in Complex Systems in Semiotics and Cybernetics

Volume 16, Issue 1-2, 2009

Foreword

Directionality in Complex Systems in Semiotics and Cybernetics
pp. 5 - 8 - PDF
Authors: Guddemi, Philip; Brier, S.; Bopry, J.; Bunnell, P

Articles

• Evolution, the True Scientist, and His Attraction to the Highest Good: The Growth in the Concrete Reasonableness According to Peirce
  pp. 9 - 25
  Authors: Sorensen, Bent; Thellefsen, T.
  Abstract
• Thermodynamic Constraints of Life as Downward Causation in Ecosystems
  pp. 27 - 49
  Authors: Nielsen, Soeren
  Abstract
• Disorganization as Religion: Managing the Danish National Evangelical Lutheran Church
  pp. 51 - 64
  Authors: Slok, Camilla
  Abstract
• Society as a Self-Organized Critical System
  pp. 65 - 82
  Authors: Kron, Thomas; Grund, T.
  Abstract
• Neocybernetic Emergence: Retuning the Posthuman
  pp. 83 - 99
  Authors: Clarke, Bruce; Hansen, M.B.N.
  Abstract
• Architecture as the Cybernetic Self-Design of Boundary Conditions for Emergent Properties in Human Social Systems
  pp. 101 - 123
  Authors: Minati, Gianfranco; Collen, A.
  Abstract
• Narrowing Circles: Questions on Autopoiesis and Literary Interpretation after Dietrich Schwanitz
  pp. 125 - 141
  Authors: Lippert, Florian
  Abstract

Column

Virtual Logic: Cantor's Paradise and the Parable of Frozen Time
pp. 143 - 151 - PDF
Authors: Kauffman, Louis

Black Boxes
pp. 153 - 167 - PDF
Authors: Glanville, Ranulph

ASC Pages

A Cybernetic View of Stone Sculpting
pp. 169 - 174 - PDF
Authors: Gass, Lee

Book Review

Aesthetic Bateson
pp. 175 - 178 - PDF
Authors: Guddemi, Phillip

Two Reviews of Cybersemiotics. Why Information is not enough!
pp. 179 - 191 - PDF
Authors: Hofkirchner, Wolfgang; Larsen, S.N.