Subdynamics in Knowledge-Based Systems [chapter]

Loet Leydesdorff
2021 Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication  
AbstractUsing a set of six equations, I propose to model "interactions," the "organization of meaning," and "self-organization" as three coordination mechanisms among expectations; three further equations can be derived to operationalize "double contingency," "identity," and "reflection." One can expect that the subdynamics update one another in co-evolutions as feedbacks and feed-forwards. Interfaces among two (sub)dynamics can be expected to operate with time differences (At). Interactions
more » ... ng horizontal and vertical time differences can generate hyper-incursivity in interhuman communications. Hyper-incursion enables us to reconstruct expectations. The social system is probably the only system which can be expected to carry "strong" anticipation while being reproduced as expectations. A system of expectations is not alive, is not constrained by a life-cycle, and does not need to "exist" otherwise than as expectations. The dynamics against the arrow of time are "cultural": they rest on codes as the pillars of discursive knowledge driven upward into horizons of meaning.
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59951-5_9 fatcat:ty65al5srreopkxz5pbzwkbfiu