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Michael Lissack
Michael Lissack describes his work as applied philosophy, cybernetics, and second-order science, with attention to the observer, modelling, anticipation, and unexamined presuppositions. The American Society for Cybernetics records his presidency from 2014 to 2020.
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Summary
Michael Lissack describes his work as applied philosophy, cybernetics, and second-order science, with attention to the observer, modelling, anticipation, and unexamined presuppositions. The American Society for Cybernetics records his presidency from 2014 to 2020.
Implications for practice
His current programme makes the observer's commitments, exclusions, and consequences part of the inquiry rather than invisible background.
Key distinctions
- An author-maintained profile establishes his stated programme, not independent acceptance of its concepts.
- Second-order inquiry is not permission to make evidence optional.
Historical development
- Second-order cybernetics, anticipatory systems, and philosophy of inquiry.
Ideas it depends on
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Further developments
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Connections to practice
- Surface the presuppositions which allow a model or explanation to count as adequate for its observer.
Common confusions
- The profile does not accept the report's broad claims about complexity theory without source-level argument review.
Further checks
- Individual concepts and current in-press work need their published texts before stronger conceptual edges are added.
Recorded connections
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Michael Lissack served as president of American Society for Cybernetics
Status: candidate · Relation: served as president of
The society's dated office-holding record.
Locator: Past Presidents, 2014–2020
- ASC Executive Board and past presidents (source scope checked)
Sources and passage locators
- ASC Executive Board and past presidents (source scope checked)
- Michael Lissack: academic profile (source scope checked)
- Missing-entry report #77: Michael Lissack (report reviewed against public sources)
Cite this entry
Taylor, B. P. (2026). Michael Lissack. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.35. https://transduction.systems/entries/person_michael_lissack/
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