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[Loet Leydesdorff]

PS. You can see the table in html. L.

 

Dear Joe, 

 

As tragic events repeatedly show, their origin is often not the lack of information in the simple sense, but the lack of structures (or structurations) in people capable of implementing it. These structures or capacities are also information in the complex sense, of course, but they also can be considered as a form of intelligence. 

 

One can consider the network of relations among intelligent agents from this perspective. The network can be written as a matrix or a two-dimensional probability distribution that contains uncertainty (expressable, for example, in bits of information). In order to retain information, the networks have to endure over time and thus one obtains a three-dimensional array of information of networks stacked (with time subscripts). In order to act “intelligently”, the networks have to be able to restructure themselves in the present using one more degree of freedom à four-dimensional probability distribution.

 

Within this array in four dimensions, one can distinguish between trajectories, regimes, Markov chains, evolutionary changes, etc.

 

	
first

dimension

second 
dimension

third

dimension

fourth 
dimension


Operation

variation

 

selection

 

stabilization, retention

globalization and self-organization


Nature

entropy; disturbance

extension; network

localized trajectory

identity or regime


Character of operation

probabilistic; uncertain

deterministic; structural

reflexive; reconstructive

globally organized; resilient


Appearance

instantaneous and volatile

spatial;

multi-variate

historically contingent

emerging 
hyper-cycle


Unit of analysis

change in terms of relations

latent

positions

stabilities during history

virtual expectations


Type  of analysis

descriptive registration

multi-variate analysis

time-series analysis

non-linear dynamics

 

 

Source: Leydesdorff, L. (2001). A Sociological Theory of Communication: The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society. Parkland, FL: Universal Publishers; at http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN <http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126956> &book=1581126956; p. 99.

 

Best, 

Loet

 

I believe more attention should be paid explicitly to such structures to enable people to recognize and use them against the inevitable forces opposing that (keeping to a schedule, not 'frightening' people, etc.) Calling responsible behavior intelligent might facilitate the exercise of it.

Best regards,

Joseph   


 

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