Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Generative Methodology Glass Bead Games
On the limits of the OWL standard à [184]
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Summary of the discussion up to this point à [186]
Dialogue about natural ontology and mapping to Information Models
Modeling Anticipation,
Codification, and Husserl’s Horizon of Meanings
Loet Leydesdorff,
Social order does not exist as a stable phenomenon, but can be considered as “an order of reproduced expectations” thus, generating a non-linear dynamics of meaning. Although specific meaning can be stabilized, for example, in social institutions, all meaning arises from a global horizon of possible meanings. Using Luhmann’s social systems theory and Rosen’s (biological) theory of anticipatory systems, I submit algorithms for modeling the exchange of meaning in social systems and the non-linear dynamics of expectations. First, a self-referential system can use a model of itself for the anticipation. Under the condition of functional differentiation, the social system can be expected to entertain a multitude of models; each model also contains a model of all other models. Two anticipatory mechanisms are then possible: one transversal between the models, and a longitudinal one providing the system with this variety of meanings. A system containing two anticipatory mechanisms can become hyper-incursive. Without making decisions, however, a hyper-incursive system would be overloaded with uncertainty. Under this pressure, informed decisions replace “natural preferences” of agents. Action and organization are increasingly transformed into decision-making structures because of uncertainty prevailing in interactions among differently codified reconstructions of meaning.