Anticipation in Social Systems : the Incursion and Communication of Meaning
p. 203-216
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In social systems, meaning can be communicated in addition to underlying processes of the information exchange. Meaning processing incurs on information processing with hindsight, while information processing recursively follows the time axis. The sole assumption of social relatedness as a variable among goups of agents provides sufficient basis for deriving the logistic map as a first-order approximation of the social system. The anticipatory formulation of this equation can be derived for both anticipation in the interaction term and in the aggregation among subgroups. Using this formula in a cellular automaton, an observer is generated as a reflection of the system under observation. The social system of interactions among observations can improve on the representations entertained by each of the observing systems.
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Loet Leydesdorff et Daniel M. Dubois, « Anticipation in Social Systems : the Incursion and Communication of Meaning », CASYS, 15 | 2004, 203-216.
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Loet Leydesdorff et Daniel M. Dubois, « Anticipation in Social Systems : the Incursion and Communication of Meaning », CASYS [En ligne], 15 | 2004, mis en ligne le 30 July 2024, consulté le 20 September 2024. URL : http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2128
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Loet Leydesdorff
Amsterdam School of Communications, Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Daniel M. Dubois
Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems, CHAOS asbl., Institute of Mathematics, B37, University of Liège, Grande Traverse 12, B-4000 Liège, Belgium.