"In an enactment of uncertainty, cybernetic technicity forms identities entangled in open futures."

My editorial to the special issue of Constructivist Foundations with selected papers from the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) provides an overview of the four thematic conversations. 

https://constructivist.info/20/2/067

The editorial can be accessed and downloaded for free.

#cybernetics #systemicdesign #recursivity #uncertainty

Conversations on Four Cybernetic Approaches to Embracing Uncertainty - Westermann C., 2025

Context: In 2024, we celebrated the 60th-anniversary meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC. In more than eighty, mostly participatory, sessions, the conference stretched over five …

Constructivist Foundations
#Gödel #EmilPost #VonNeumann #recursivity “I do not know if you have heard that "Post's problem", whether there are degrees of unsolvability among problems of the form (∃ y) φ(y,x), where φ is recursive, has been solved in the positive sense by a very young man by the name of Richard Friedberg. The solution is very elegant. Unfortunately, Friedberg does not intend to study mathematics, but rather medicine.” Gödel to Von Neumann
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