Anticipatory Systems and the Processing of Meaning: A Simulation Study Inspired by Luhmannâ s Theory of Social Systems. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 8(2), Paper 7.

Meaning can be communicated in addition to - and on top of - underlying processes of the information exchange. Meaning is provided to observations from the perspective of hindsight, while information processing follows the time axis. Simulations of anticipatory systems enable us to show how an obser...

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Main Author: Leydesdorff, Loet
Language:en
Published: 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105710