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Expanding Science and Advancing Reflexive Government: Two Current Projects in Cybernetics | Umpleby (2018)

Expanding Science and Advancing Reflexive Government: Two Current Projects in Cybernetics

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Expanding Science and Advancing Reflexive Government: Two Current Projects in Cybernetics

Systems Science, cybernetics and complexity are closely related fields. To illustrate, this article describes two projects in contemporary cybernetics that may be of interest to those concerned with complexity and policy studies. The first project is an effort to expand the conception of science so that it more successfully encompasses the social sciences. The intent is to aid communication among disciplines and improve our ability to manage social systems. The second project is an effort to develop reflexivity theory into a general theory of purposeful, self-directed systems, thus improving our understanding and management of social systems. The article ends with some comparisons of complexity and cybernetics.