A MODEL FOR CHANGING THE MINDS OF CYBERNETICIANS

Abstract

Second‐order cybernetics, as developed by Foerster, has shown that the perceived environment is our invention. Cyberneticians also need to realize that this invented environment occurs within a particular operational state of the nervous system in humans, and that a basic modification of this state creates another operational state. In the first state, cybernetic operations create an experienced reality of differentiated duality. The second state is noncybernetic because information creation does not occur, thus it has no content and is experienced as undifferentiated unity. The transition between states depends upon the shifting of attention away and back to from content creation. Awareness of the duality‐unity model creates a framework for a cybernetic theory of reality recomputation in which the content experience of duality is impacted and changed by the no‐content experience of unity. This theory within cyberneticians can be based upon the experience of others or upon personal experience.

Citation

ENGLAND, B. (1983), "A MODEL FOR CHANGING THE MINDS OF CYBERNETICIANS", Kybernetes, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 43-48. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005639