CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES MATRIX
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 596 ▶ |
| Object type | Methodology or model |
- “A matrix determining the relative probabilities of various patterns (and patterns of patterns) of behavior in all possible circumstances” (1969, p.95).
Mac KAY expresses this also in the following alternative way: “A hierarchic structure of organizing ”sub-routines“ to determine these conditional probabilities interlocked in such a way as to represent implicitely the structure of the environment (the world of activity) with which the organism must interact. For many purposes, we may reduce it to the filling-out of a world-map, ready to be consulted according to current needs and goals” (Ibid).
These very interesting definitions evoke:
1 — K. STEINBUCH's “Learn-matrixes” through wich a system is establishing connections between specific signs and specific meanings.
2 — H. MATURANA and F. VARELA “organizational closure” according to which everything which happens to a system happens within the system and then only within the limits of the predefined capacity of autopoiesis (self-reproduction) of the system. (Remains to explain wherefrom this capacity comes into being and why and how it becomes closured).
3 — W.R. ASHBY's “Law of requisity variety” and concept of constraint.
4 — the incapacity for any system to construct a complete and totally thrustworthy map of the world wherein it exists; as shown by A. KORZYBSKI (1933, 1950).