Power, Autonomy, Utopia : New Approaches Toward Complex Systems

One -- Recursions of Power -- Not Quite Human: Science and Utopia -- The Physics of Complexity -- Knowing Natural Systems Enables Better Design of Man-Made Systems: The Linkage Proposition Model -- Guidelines for Influencing Social Policy through Strategic Computer Simulation Models -- Reducing International Tension and Improving Mutual Understanding through Artificial Intelligence: 3 Potential Approaches -- Two -- Steps in the Construction of “Others” and “Reality”: A Study of Self-Regulation -- Steps to a Cybernetics of Autonomy -- Second Order Cybernetics in the Soviet Union and the West -- Methods for Making Social Organizations Adaptive -- Discussion: Guiding Questions and Conceptual Structures in Cybernetics and General Systems Theory: Comparative Studies -- Biographies of Contributors -- Name Index.