Proceedings of the IFSR Conversation 2004, Fuschl, Austria

Proceedings of the Twelfth Fuschl Conversation
SEA-Publications: SEA-SR-0
Institute for Systems Engineering and Automation
J. Kepler University Linz, Austria
ISBN 3-902457-07-4
Table of Contents

  • Fuschl 2004: The 12th Fuschl Conversation, April 2004… 5
  • Conversations, why, what and how?… 7
  • Fuschl – 24 years of history… 9
  • List of Participants of Fuschl 2004… 9
  • Team 1: New Agoras for the 21st Century- Conscious Self-Guided Evolution… 11
    • Team Report: Building a New Agora… 13
    • Angela Espinosa: The Global Agora Project Some Questions From A Cybernetic Viwepoint… 25
    • Gerhard Chroust: Communication Gaps in Modern Agoras… 29
  • Team 2: Designing Systems for Human Betterment… 37
    • Team Report: Designing Systems for Human Betterment… 39
  • Team 3: Foundations of Information Science: What comes after Enlightenment Rationality?… 47
    • Team Report: Towards a New Foundation of Information-, Cognitive- and
      Communication-Science… 49
    • Christian Fuchs: Self-Organization of the Cultural Subsystem of Modern Society… 61
    • Antoaneta Doncheva: The Place of Science in Culture… 93
  • Team 4: “Being” Social Systems: Awareness and Enactment… 97
    • Team Report: Being Social Systems… 99
  • Team 5: Y3K and a Meta-System Design Field… 105
    • Team Report: Towards Y3K – a 2004 perspective on hominisation with some emphasis on
      educational systems… 107

Proceedings of the IFSR Conversation 2004, Fuschl, Austria