(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 …Hughes, P., & Brecht, G. (1976). Vicious circles and infinity: A panoply of paradoxes. London: Cape. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
Kant, I. (1998). Critique of pure reason repr. w. corr. (trans: Guyer, P., & Woo…
Mihajlo D. Mesarovic
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Mesarovic developed hierarchical multilevel systems theory, a foundational framework for understanding complex organizations through nested levels of description and control—work that underpins the course's engagement with how we ontologically structure AI systems and cybernetic processes. The excerpts position his levels-of-organization approach as central to debates about whether hierarchical system descriptions reflect objective structures inherent to reality or are instead analytical impositions, a tension directly relevant to how machine learning architectures and their supposed "intelligence" are theorized.
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