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<body><div><div data-contents="true"><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8nv2c" data-offset-key="3q6q8-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3q6q8-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj"><i><span data-offset-key="3q6q8-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></i></div><div data-offset-key="3q6q8-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj"><i><span data-offset-key="3q6q8-0-0"><span data-text="true">Social Order: Continuously Reconstructed in </span></span><span data-offset-key="3q6q8-1-0"><span data-text="true">Terms</span></span></i><span data-offset-key="3q6q8-2-0"><span data-text="true"><i> of Expectations</i>, Open Peer Commentary to: Elena Esposito, Construtivist Foundations 6(3), 372-374</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8nv2c" data-offset-key="10pfi-0-0"><div data-offset-key="10pfi-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj"><span data-offset-key="10pfi-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8nv2c" data-offset-key="6cjrr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6cjrr-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj"><span data-offset-key="6cjrr-0-0"><span data-text="true">The generation of redundancy is specific for meaning processing in anticipatory systems. Variation generates entropy; redundancy is generated by selection mechanisms in inter-human communications. Algorithmic and probabilistic models can thus serve the elaboration of Luhmann’s sociological theory of communication.</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8nv2c" data-offset-key="4dpb4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="4dpb4-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj"><span data-offset-key="4dpb4-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8nv2c" data-offset-key="79boo-0-0"><div data-offset-key="79boo-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj"><span class="py34i1dx"><span data-offset-key="79boo-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://constructivist.info/16/3/372.leydesdorff">https://constructivist.info/16/3/372.leydesdorff</a></span></span></span></div></div></div></div>
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