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2. Can intellectual processes in the sciences also be simulated? The anticipation and visualization of possible future states.
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Leydesdorff, Loet
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Socio-cognitive action reproduces and changes both social and cognitive structures. The analytical distinction between these dimensions of structure provides us with richer models of scientific development. In this study, I assume that (1) social structures organize expectations into belief structures that can be attributed to individuals and communities; (2) expectations are specified in scholarly literature; and (3) intellectually the sciences (disciplines, specialties) tend to self-organize as systems of rationalized expectations. Whereas social organizations remain localized, academic writings can circulate, and expectations can be stabilized and globalized using symbolically generalized codes of communication. The intellectual restructuring, however, remains latent as a second-order dynamics that can be accessed by participants only reflexively. Yet, the emerging 'horizons of meaning' provide feedback to the historically developing organizations by constraining the possible future states as boundary conditions. I propose to model these possible future states using incursive and hyper-incursive equations from the computation of anticipatory systems. Simulations of these equations enable us to visualize the couplings among the historical-i.e., recursive-progression of social structures along trajectories, the evolutionary-i.e., hyper-incursive-development of systems of expectations at the regime level, and the incursive instantiations of expectations in actions, organizations, and texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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3. The Communication of Meaning in Anticipatory Systems: A Simulation Study of the Dynamics of Intentionality in Social Interactions.
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Leydesdorff, Loet
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MEANING (Philosophy) , *SOCIAL interaction , *SOCIAL systems , *PSYCHOLOGY , *INTENTIONALITY (Philosophy) - Abstract
Psychological and social systems provide us with a natural domain for the study of anticipations because these systems are based on and operate in terms of intentionality. Psychological systems can be expected to contain a model of themselves and their environments; social systems can be strongly anticipatory and therefore co-construct their environments, for example, in techno-economic (co-)evolutions. Using Dubois’ hyper-incursive and incursive formulations of the logistic equation, these two types of systems and their couplings can be simulated. In addition to their structural coupling, psychological and social systems are also coupled by providing meaning reflexively to each other’s meaning-processing. Luhmann’s distinctions among (1) interactions between intentions at the micro-level, (2) organization at the meso-level, and (3) self-organization of the fluxes of meaningful communication at the global level can be modeled and simulated using three hyper-incursive equations. The global level of self-organizing interactions among fluxes of communication is retained at the meso-level of organization. In a knowledge-based economy, these two levels of anticipatory structuration can be expected to propel each other at the supra-individual level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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4. The Dual Incursive System of the Discrete Harmonic Oscillator.
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Antippa, Adel F. and Dubois, Daniel M.
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HARMONIC oscillators , *HARMONIC motion , *PHYSICAL sciences , *ALGORITHMS , *PARALLEL algorithms , *EQUATIONS of motion , *FREQUENCIES of oscillating systems , *PHYSICS - Abstract
This paper deals with the dual incursive system of the discrete harmonic oscillator, in the framework of discrete physics. Its basic premisses are that nature computes incursively, and that this is a consequence of the principle of maximum efficiency. The incursive system is based on two parallel algorithms depending on the order in which the computations are processed. Its incursivity, operationallity, and duality are discussed. We study the system conceptually, analytically, numerically and graphically. We give a number of different formulations of the equations of motion, study the closed form solutions, shifted natural frequency of oscillation. We find the system to be operationally efficient, orbitally stable in phase space, and to possess constants of the motion having the dimensions of energy. © 2006 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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5. Hyperincursion and the Globalization of the Knowledge-Based Economy.
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Leydesdorff, Loet
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KNOWLEDGE management , *SOCIAL systems , *BIOLOGICAL systems , *LANGUAGE & languages , *COMMUNICATION methodology , *SPACE trajectories , *HUMAN beings - Abstract
In biological systems, the capacity of anticipation—that is, entertaining a model of the system within the system—can be considered as naturally given. Human languages enable psychological systems to construct and exchange mental models of themselves and their environments reflexively, that is, provide meaning to the events. At the level of the social system expectations can further be codified. When these codifications are functionally differentiated—like between market mechanisms and scientific research programs—the potential asynchronicity in the update among the subsystems provides room for a second anticipatory mechanism at the level of the transversal information exchange among differently codified meaning-processing subsystems. Interactions between the two different anticipatory mechanisms (the transversal one and the one along the time axis in each subsystem) may lead to co-evolutions and stabilization of expectations along trajectories. The wider horizon of knowledgeable expectations can be expected to meta-stabilize and also globalize a previously stabilized configuration of expectations against the axis of time. While stabilization can be considered as consequences of interaction and aggregation among incursive formulations of the logistic equation, globalization can be modeled using the hyperincursive formulation of this equation. The knowledge-based subdynamic at the global level which thus emerges, enables historical agents to inform the reconstruction of previous states and to co-construct future states of the social system, for example, in a techno-economic co-evolution. © 2006 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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6. Anticipation, Orbital Stability, and Energy Conservation in Discrete Harmonic Oscillators.
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Antippa, Adel F. and Dubois, Daniel M.
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ORBITS (Astronomy) , *STABILITY (Mechanics) , *ENERGY conservation , *COMPUTATIONAL mathematics , *HARMONIC analysis (Mathematics) - Abstract
We make a systematic analysis of the dual incursive model of the discrete harmonic oscillator. We derive its closed form solution, and identify its natural frequency of oscillation. We study its orbital stability, and the conservation of its total energy. We finally propose a superposed model that conserves energy with absolute precision, and exhibits a high degree of orbital stability. Within the conjecture that spacetime is discrete, the above results lead to the conclusion that discretization must be accompanied by anticipation, in order to guarantee orbital stability and energy conservation. © 2004 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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7. Further Properties of Derived Scalar Strong Anticipatory Systems.
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Burke, Mark E.
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SCALAR field theory , *STABILITY (Mechanics) , *COMPUTATIONAL mathematics , *COMPUTER systems , *OSCILLATIONS - Abstract
The study of self referential anticipatory systems derived from causal systems or recursions has received attention in recent years. This paper builds on and extends previously reported results by investigating what happens to the regular dynamics of a first order system modelled by a recursion when the recursion is replaced by an associated incursion. The effect of this replacement on the stability properties of the fixed points and cycles of the map is examined. © 2004 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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8. The non-linear dynamics of meaning processing in social systems.
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Leydesdorff, Loet
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- 2009
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9. Anticipatory Systems and the Processing of Meaning: a Simulation Study Inspired by Luhmann's Theory of Social Systems.
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Leydesdorff, Loet
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SOCIAL systems ,MEANING (Philosophy) ,SOCIAL interaction ,VISUALIZATION ,CELLULAR automata ,PARALLEL processing - Abstract
Meaning can be communicated in addition to — and on top of — underlying processes of the information exchange. Meaning is provided to observations from the perspective of hindsight, while information processing follows the time axis. Simulations of anticipatory systems enable us to show how an observer can be generated within an information process, and how expectations can also be exchanged. Cellular automata will be used for the visualization. The exchange of observations among observers generates (a) uncertainty about the delineations in the observed system at each moment in time and (b) uncertainty about the dynamics of the interaction over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
10. Can intellectual processes in the sciences also be simulated? The anticipation and visualization of possible future states
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Loet Leydesdorff and ASCoR Other Research (FMG)
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Incursion ,Restructuring ,Social Sciences(all) ,Library and Information Sciences ,Article ,Anticipation ,Computer Science - Computers and Society ,Computers and Society (cs.CY) ,Digital Libraries (cs.DL) ,Sociology ,Meaning (existential) ,Social organization ,Structure (mathematical logic) ,Expectation ,Hyper-incursion ,General Social Sciences ,Cognition ,Computer Science - Digital Libraries ,Computer Science Applications ,Epistemology ,Action (philosophy) ,Anticipation (artificial intelligence) ,Law ,Social structure ,Simulation - Abstract
Socio-cognitive action reproduces and changes both social and cognitive structures. The analytical distinction between these dimensions of structure provides us with richer models of scientific development. In this study, I assume that (i) social structures organize expectations into belief structures that can be attributed to individuals and communities; (ii) expectations are specified in scholarly literature; and (iii) intellectually the sciences (disciplines, specialties) tend to self-organize as systems of rationalized expectations. Whereas social organizations remain localized, academic writings can circulate, and expectations can be stabilized and globalized using symbolically generalized codes of communication. The intellectual restructuring, however, remains latent as a second-order dynamics that can be accessed by participants only reflexively. Yet, the emerging "horizons of meaning" provide feedback to the historically developing organizations by constraining the possible future states as boundary conditions. I propose to model these possible future states using incursive and hyper-incursive equations from the computation of anticipatory systems. Simulations of these equations enable us to visualize the couplings among the historical--i.e., recursive--progression of social structures along trajectories, the evolutionary--i.e., hyper-incursive--development of systems of expectations at the regime level, and the incursive instantiations of expectations in actions, organizations, and texts., accepted for publication in Scientometrics (June 2015)
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- 2015
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