Second-order cybernetics thoroughly addresses information from a human perspective: “Information is, of course, the process by which knowledge is acquired, and knowledge is the processes that integrate past and present experiences to form n…In attempting to interrogate and fully comprehend the elements in interactive hybrid environments, a cybersemiotic approach (Brier 2008) is used here, taking into consideration that a human, either the creator or participant in such an envi…
Janet Bopry
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Janet Bopry appears in the course materials as a theorist engaging second-order cybernetics and its implications for understanding knowledge and information as fundamentally human processes rather than abstract quantities. Her work, cited alongside cybersemiotic approaches, contributes to frameworks that grant equal weight to human agents—whether as creators or participants—within interactive hybrid environments, challenging technical determinism. The excerpts suggest she's being deployed to argue that any architecture dealing with AI and machine learning must account for the observer and the observed as co-constitutive rather than separate.
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