KNOWLEDGE (Principle of incomplete)
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1831 ▶ |
| Object type | Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
- “The model embodied in a control system is necessarily incomplete” (F. HEYLIGHEN, 1991a, p.9).
HEYLIGHEN, who enounces this principle, sees it as a consequence of various other limitative principles which came to the fore during this century:
- W. HEISENBERG's uncertainty principle
- A. EINSTEIN's relativity principle (“of the finiteness of the speed of light”, implying that the moment the information is registered, it is already obsolete to some extent).
- H. SIMON's principle of bounded rationality, “stating that a decision maker in a real world situation will never have all information necessary for making. an optimal decision”
- L. LÖFGREN's principle of the partiality of self-reference “implying that a system cannot represent itself completely, and hence cannot have complete knowledge of how its own actions may feed back into the perturbations” (p.10).