0 | 17.4.2011 | 1 year ago______ modernist.avatar
0 | 21.12.2010 | 1 year ago______ second order cybernetics
_______ The system can be observed as a second order cybernetic construct which presents an exemplar in which the observer is circularly and intimately involved with/connected to the observed. Thus, the observer is no longer neutral and detached, and what is considered is not the observed, as is the case in the classical standard, but the observing system. The aim of attaining traditional objectivity is either abandoned/passed over, or what objectivity is and how we might obtain and value it is reconsidered. In this sense, every observation is autobiographical. Therefore, second order Cybernetics must primarily be considered through the first person and with active verbs. The observer’s inevitable presence should be acknowledged, and should be written about in the first person, not the third, giving us an insight into who these observers are. (Glanville, 2002).
0 | 21.12.2010 | 1 year ago
“ a kinetic rather than a kinematic system in which the beginnings and the endings of the concepts of Conversation Theory had been replaced by eternal, evolving kinetic interactions between organizationally closed and informationally open concept loops, comprised of toruses that maintain a boundary, a distinction
_________ Nick Green, on Gordon Pask’s Interaction of Actors theory, (2004).
_________ Nick Green, on Gordon Pask’s Interaction of Actors theory, (2004).
0 | 21.12.2010 | 1 year ago______ p-individuals
________ While P-individuals may operate distributed over numerous biological or mechanical domains, also referred to as M-individuals, there can also be several P-individuals operating within one M-individual. Thus Pask asserts that what it is we are mainly helping to educate/self-construct is not simply one person but rather a wide variety of interwoven competitive P-individuals, some of whom may execute in distributed fashion across many bodies and machines.
0 | 21.12.2010 | 1 year ago
“ If the body is the fundamental communication hardware, a simulator for a mind, what is its relationship to media made of steel, plastic, or silicon? Instead of pulsing blood, pulses of electrons and light animate these media.
_________ Frank Biocca, 1997
_________ Frank Biocca, 1997
0 | 8.8.2010 | 1 year ago
“ Just as we choose our self-representations in virtual environments, our self representations shape our behaviors in turn. These changes happen not over weeks, but within minutes.
_________ Nick Yee
_________ Nick Yee
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