Take as a premise that listening (and its circularities) becomes an essential practice for making a difference in the world and represents a critical concept in the design of a participative-dialogic society. The speaker-respondent circularity turns listening into a conversation. Participants set aside their habitual or socially prescribed ways of interacting and explore other ways to be presen...

State Key Laboratory of ISN, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China 3 Department of Applied Mathematics, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China 4 Guangxi Key Laboratory of Wireless Wideband Communication and Signal Processing, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Gui...

1 In examining relationships between autopoiesis and anticipation in artificial life (Alife) systems it is demonstrated that anticipation may increase efficiency and viability in artificial autopoietic living systems. This paper, firstly, gives a review of the Varela et al [1974] automata algorithm of an autopoietic living cell. Some problems in this algorithm must be corrected. Secondly, a new...

A randomized method aimed at evaluation of probabilistic bounds for function values is considered. Stochastic intervals tightly covering ranges of function values with probability close to one are modelled by a randomized method inspired by interval arithmetic. Statistical properties of the modelled intervals are investigated experimentally. The experimental results are discussed with respect t...

CYBERNETICS has been defined as "the control of machines by machines instead of by men" (Stanley-Jones, 1957). Its meaning embraces also the pattern of that control. A cardinal notion is the concept of feed-back. This may be simply explained by reference to the most familiar example of cybernetic control, the thermostat of an electric iron. An electric iron is a machine for converting electrici...

ing these farms. I suggest the possibility of &g. 'saying something in the form of interpretation', what I have in mind might be clumsily circumscribed as the arrangement of descriptions (or things) in some configuration which, corresponding to (or fitting) the form of an actual act of interpretation, may facilitate the event of such an act. Clearly such an arrangement is made in an act of its ...

This paper uses cybernetic approach to study behavior of the Riemann zeta function. It is based on the elementary cybernetic concepts like feedback, transfer functions, time delays, PI (Proportional–Integral) controllers or FOPDT (First Order Plus Dead Time) models, respectively. An unusual dynamic interpretation of the Riemann zeta function is obtained.

David Baehrens∗ [email protected] Timon Schroeter∗ [email protected] Technische Universität Berlin Franklinstr. 28/29, FR 6-9 10587 Berlin, Germany Stefan Harmeling∗ [email protected] MPI for Biological Cybernetics Spemannstr. 38 72076 Tübingen, Germany Motoaki Kawanabe† [email protected] Fraunhofer Institute FIRST.IDA Kekulestr.7 12489 Berlin, Germany