ArticleIntegrative psychological & behavioral science2026
Navigating Complexity in Reflexive Cybernetics: Forces, feedback, and felt valences.
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- Thinking as Relational Process and Pattern in Semiotic Cultural Psychology.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2026Article
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Abstract
Cybernetics – seen as the interdisciplinary study of systems, control, and feedback - has progressed through first-order cybernetics (observed systems), second cybernetics (observing systems), and nascent third cybernetics (mutual observing systems). Reflexive cybernetics expands classical principles by incorporating self-sustaining, recursive, and heterogeneous meaning-making processes. These enrich our understanding of complex adaptive systems. This paper examines cybernetics across three interrelated system domains - mechanical, organic, and social - each organised and affected by cybernetic forces, feedback mechanisms, and felt-valences. Within these domains, constraint/enhancement, control/support, and negation/affirmation dynamics shape concepts (thinking), practices (acting), and semiotic sign-relations (feeling). By embedding cybernetics within technological, ecological, and sociocultural contexts, reflexive cybernetics offers a robust framework for systemic resilience and ethical alignment. Mutual reflexive observing systems foster dynamic and transformative responses to social and cultural challenges. In this way, they influence emergent behaviors and decision-making processes. Ultimately, reflexive cybernetics enhances iterative learning, reinforcing sustainability and ethical sensibility in an increasingly interconnected world.
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