(1) Levels of organization (LoOs) support an ontological approach, according to which the system under analysis is supposed to have a (usually hierarchical) structure in itself, or de re, which is allegedly uncovered by its description and …Russell, B. (1902). Letter to Frege. In J. van Heijenoort (Ed.), From frege to gödel: A source book in mathematical logic, 1879–1931 (pp. 124–125). Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, 1967.
Salthe, S. N. (1985). Evolving hierarchical s…
Herbert A. Simon
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Herbert Simon emerges here as a foundational figure in AI who extended cybernetic logic into formal models of bounded rationality and hierarchical systems—essentially mechanizing decision-making processes across organizations and machines. The reading positions him as a key theorist who translated Von Neumann's computational vision into practical AI research, part of a larger arc in which cybernetics becomes the template for understanding bureaucratic, capitalist, and now algorithmic control systems. His work represents the moment when rationalization itself became computationally substrate-independent, enabling the "total templating" that characterizes contemporary automated governance.
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