Two connected works by Gabriel Burstein and Constantin Virgil Negoita explore Kabbalah’s Tree of Life as a model for relationships between cognition, emotion, and action.

Foundations of a postmodern cybernetics based on Kabbalah (2011)

The authors propose a cybernetics grounded in the Tree of Life, interpreting its structure through feedback, hierarchical control, multi-valued logic, and category theory. Their aim is to model cognitive, emotional, and practical activity within a common framework for human and social systems.

Published in Kybernetes, 40(9/10), pp. 1331–1353. Read the paper on ResearchGate. DOI: 10.1108/03684921111169422.

A Kabbalah System Theory Modeling Framework for Knowledge Based Behavioral Economics and Finance (2014)

This chapter develops the earlier proposal for economics and finance. Burstein and Negoita combine their three-level model with emotional intelligence and Michael Polanyi’s account of tacit and explicit knowledge. They use system dynamics to explore how knowledge and emotional biases could enter economic models, including asset pricing.

Chapter 2 in Computational Models of Complex Systems, edited by Vijay Kumar Mago and Vahid Dabbaghian, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, volume 53, pp. 5–23. Read the chapter on ResearchGate. Publisher’s record. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01285-8_2.