OBSERVATION PROCESS: A Constructivist Interpretation
Charles François (2004). OBSERVATION PROCESS: A Constructivist Interpretation, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 2334.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2334 ▶ |
| Object type | Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
F. HEYLIGHEN explains: “In a realist interpretation, a state is an intrinsic property of a system, which is independent of the observer”…
This may indeed be correct per se, but it is of no practical use, since …“In a constructivist interpretation, a state is a construct resulting from an interaction between the system and the observer, which is such that it allows the observer to find a maximum of coherence between the different results of observations (i.e. subject-object interactions). In general, no construction (representation) is optimal, and the advantages and disavantages of a particular representation may be counterbalanced by different advantages and disadvantages of another representation.” (1990b, p.498).