Krzysztof (Chris) Kiersnowski........METACYBERNETICS
My research in the field of Metacybernetics is organically connected to scientific achievements of non formal group of polish scientists referred to Polish Cybernetic School. The specific methodology used by this group was founded by prof. Marian Mazur in the period between 1960-1980. But the roots for this type of research can be found in 19th century, when Poland did not even existed as an independent country. After January Uprising polish patriotic elite realized that they have very little of resources (high educated people, money etc) to be used to regain independence in the future. The founders of so called Polish League(Liga Polska) realized that the most successful approach will be when they will be looking for best possible methods to use available resources to obtain the best possible effectiveness. The Polish League and similar organizational initiatives led to arising strong socio-political groups, which action significantly helped to obtain independence in 1919. During the Interwar period scientist gathered at the Universities in Lwów, Warsaw, Kraków and Poznań were developing (among others) the strong foundations for sciences dealing with the theory of science (prof. Jan Łukasiewicz) and more generally theory of effective human action (Praxeology - for prof. Kotarbiński). They helped to deliver better understanding of methodologies used in various types of human activity. The results of those works were used in creation of very effective intelligence and cryptological units in polish army. Mentioned founding father of polish approach to cybernetics Marian Mazur started continuing this type of research already before and during of II World War. In 1942 he wrote the first version of his theory of Autonomous Systems, which copy was destroyed during the war. The second and improved version appeared in 1966 as The Cybernetic Theory of Autonomous Systems. In this period the other Founding Father of Metacybernetics - Józef Koseccki - started his scientific activity and got interested in Marian Mazur's works. He significantly developed Marian Mazur's ideas. He generalized Mazur's Qualitative Theory of Information (QlTI) to General Qualitative theory of Information by adding one of the pillars to his version of Metacybernetics: Systemic Axiomatic Theory of Conceptual Cognition (SATCC). He published compact version of his Metacybernetics in 2005 (polish language only) and revised version in 2015 (polish language only).
The mentioned above works of Marian Mazur and Józef Kossecki gave me resources to understand that Metacybernetics delivers a very precise information-system based methodology for analysis of any type of deliberate action!
Below, I present the content of my research program in the form of a Table of Contents of two books. The beauty of this approach lies in its epistemological effectiveness. We invest very little - mostly elementary primitive notion of concepts - and we obtain very precise tool - called Information_Systemic Theory of Cognition (ISTC)- to build knowledge systems at the precision level equivalent and even exceeding the one used in contemporary sciences. ISTC is actually a theoretical basis for description of all presently existing sciences. It is a meta-subject for Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Medicine, Computer Sciences, Psychology, Sociology, Political Sciences and for any type of engineering! Metacyberentics delivers method to obtain integrate approach to all sciences and also to obtain integrated approach to any type of deliberate action at more precise and effective level that contemporary cybernetics! It can be used to precisely understand, analyse and design various type of actions performed by living organism and devices created by humans. Metacybernetics shows that ISTC delivers so called systemic representation of certain parts of reality that combines ultra-precision with simplicity. This beautiful combination is possible because systemic approach is based here on the super-ingredient of Qualitative theory of Information. QlTI ensures that this representation is utilizing minimal amount of objects and relationships (transformations - connecting objects in the system) inside the conceptual system. Moreover QlTI prevents so called information entangling, which is present in most of text, documents and other forms of message people deal in present information-filled world. Without QlTI people can not distinguish between information and statements and analyse something which is not information as information! Confusion between statements and information creates information clots and produces need for big data analysis. QlTI defines information very precisely and is a central tool of Metacybernetics!
Unique properties of systemic representation based on ISTC provides representation of any type of deliberate action as a control process with the richness of information-systemic description, which enables practically everybody (NOT ONLY SCIENTISTS!!!) to have very scientific-like inside into world of deliberate action, which is so important in everybody's life! It can deliver teachers better methods for teaching; It can deliver scientists methodology to create better knowledge systems; it can help engineers to make transition to next generation of engineering (cybernetics engineering); it can help everybody to improve relationships with other people using so called cybernetic psychology. This list can be continued, but the conclusion is that Metacyberentics is for everybody, not only for scientists and engineers! You don't need higher education to understand it and to use it.
What is more fundamental: deliberate action or cognition ? The answer is that we need cognition to perform effectively deliberate action. Cognition is a tool for proper deliberate action to create the hyper-system of various forms of human activity called Culture. Deliberate action takes place in certain part of reality, which is represented in our minds as a conceptual system. We can not perform any deliberate action without ability to create conceptual systems! Metacybernetics delivers a tool to build conceptual systems in the information-system representation naturally coherent with the representation of deliberate action in the form of control system. Both of these representations are coherent and complementary; they create unified system. Final result: metacybernetics delivers ultra precise description of any deliberate action in form of the control process. It enables to create the hyper systems of control processes as hyper control process etc. It delivers proper tool to build representation of deliberate action, which enables precise analysis of all of the steps during the control process and precise optimization of future steps. Metacybernetics is analogical to operating systems used to program various application - deliberate action as control processes.
I got interested in Metacybernetics because I am sure that this is the most effective method to make "jump" to new generation of engineering activity (unifying engineering and scientific processes), based mostly on information processes and minimizing energo-material processes. We already observe this trend. The "energo-material" parts of design phases ( making physical prototypes and laboratory experiments) will be gradually replaced by "information-based" processes (computer-based simulations). With regard to manufacturing phases in the engineering processes more and more of them will be shifting gradually into various types of "3D-printing" action in "nano", "micro" and "macro" scales. I call this new approach as "cybernetic engineering" or "c-engineering". Metacybernetics can deliver software-like tool for c-engineering and 3D printing + meta-materials technologies can deliver hardware-like tool to c-engineering.
In cybernetic engineering information processes and energo-material processes will be strongly separated in time into two homogenous parts and the energo-material phase will be shifted at the end of the engineering process, enabling optimizing of time, energy and materials.
METACYBERNETICS
Origins of Metacybernetics
"Fundamentals"
Information-Systemic Theory of Cognition (ISTC)
Effective Systemic Theory of Cognition
Systemic Axiomatic Theory of Cognition
Systemic Qualitative Theory of Information (SQlTI)
Information-Axiomatic Logic
Systemic Conceptual Representation
Process as Generalised Systems
Meta of Cybernetics (MC)
MC1: Canonical Types of Deliberate Action as Fundamental Controlling Processes
MC2: Fundamentals of Controlling
MC3: Metacybernetic Base
MC4: Info-cybernetics of Coordinator
Cybernetic Theory of Autonomous Systems
General Theory Of Information
Extended SQlTI
Quantitative Theory of Information
Valuable Theory of Information
APPLICATION OF METACYBERNETICS
mcPsychology: Metacybernetic Theory of Human Character
mcScience: Metacybernetic Theory of Science
mcTeaching-mcPhysics
mcEngineering: Metacybernetic Theory of Engineering (Cybernetic Engineering)
mcCulture: Metacybernetic Theory of Culture and Civilization
