This description was written by a machine and published without a person checking it. It is what the agent made of this grouping, and not a statement anybody has stood behind.
The observer in the system
A subject the papers are about. The loosest grouping, and the one to reach for last.
Second-order cybernetics: putting the observer inside the observed system. Position papers, its origin volume, and applications, including those denying it applies (Fuchs on the Internet).
5 references
Second-Order Recursions of First-Order Cybernetics: An "Experimental Epistemology"
Won Jeon (2022) · Open Philosophy
Cybernetics, reflexivity and second-order science
Louis H. Kauffman (2016) · Constructivist Foundations
Cybernetics: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions
Unattributed (2016) · diaphanes
The Internet as a Self-Organizing Socio-Technological System
Christian Fuchs (2003) · Human Strategies in Complexity Research Paper
Cybernetics and second-order cybernetics
Francis Heylighen and others (2003) · Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology · Academic Press