The Intelligence of Ignorance in Self-Referential Systems
Year: 1994
Type: preprint
Abstract: Self-referential systems theory does not provide for a concept of intelligence. There is even a certain resistance to intelligence that seems to block any explicit exchange of concepts with artificial systems theory. The paper describes the intelligence service in self-referential systems as the self-referential and, hence, paradoxical switching from the self-reference of these systems to other-reference. How this might work is shown by means of G. Spencer Brown's calculus of indications and Heinz von Foerster's notion of double closure.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Author: Dirk Baecker
Institution: Witten/Herdecke University
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2273714355