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Technology as an observing system : a 2nd order cybernetics approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The role of technology in modern society is becoming fundamental to society itself as the boundary between technological utilization and technological interference narrows.
Demetis, Dionysios
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Breathing new life into cognitive science [PDF]

open access: yesAvant, 2011
In this article I take an unusual starting point from which to argue for a unified cognitive science, namely a position defined by what is sometimes called the ‘life-mind continuity thesis’.
Tom Froese
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Cybersemiotics: An Evolutionary World View Going Beyond Entropy and Information into the Question of Meaning

open access: yesEntropy, 2010
What makes Cybersemiotics different from other approaches attempting to produce a transdisciplinary theory of information, cognition and communication is its absolute naturalism, which forces us to view life, consciousness and cultural meaning all as a ...
Søren Brier
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What is Autonomy? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
A system is autonomous if it uses its own information to modify itself and its environment to enhance its survival, responding to both environmental and internal stimuli to modify its basic functions to increase its viability.
Collier, John
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Autopoiesis: Foundations of life, cognition, and emergence of self/other

open access: yesBiosyst., 2023
P. Stano   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Higher Education Exchange: 2009 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This annual publication serves as a forum for new ideas and dialogue between scholars and the larger public. Essays explore ways that students, administrators, and faculty can initiate and sustain an ongoing conversation about the public life they share ...
Dana Walker   +7 more
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Organization, Autopoiesis and Human Potential as Paradigm of the Future Organization

open access: yes, 2018
Background and purpose: Eternal challenge to researchers of organization theory is how to develop a suitable organization for increasingly more complex internal and external processes, and how to set a simple definition for it.
Tanja Balažic Peček, M. Ovsenik
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Żywe sposoby nadawania sensu [PDF]

open access: yesAvant, 2012
Evan Thompson’s paper has four parts. First, he says more about what he means when he asks, “what is living?” Second, he presents his way of answering this question, which is that living is sense-making in precarious conditions.
Evan Thompson
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El gesto analógico. Una revisión de las ‘técnicas del cuerpo’ de Marcel Mauss

open access: yesRevista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad, 2011
A la concreción de un gesto, de una postura o de un movimiento se llega por muchas vías. Una de ellas, poco explorada por la Antropología y por la Sociología, es la vía analógica.
Jaime De la Calle Valverde
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