LEYDESDORFF

This website was developed by the team of the Knowledge Space Lab which is a part of Virtual Knowledge Studio in collaboration with Loet Leydesdorff... We have developed above the notion of reflection at the level of the social system with reference to scientific (i.e. theoretical) systems. However, one should be aware that "reflexivity" can be defined in other dimensions. For example, not only can one reflect cognitively upon one's thoughts, one can also feel that one feels, love that one loves, laugh about laughing, etc. (Luhmann 1984). In general, reflexivity is the capacity of a communication system to recursively apply the communication to the communication of this system. As far as this can be done, and then be communicated, the higher order communication system may begin to exhibit self-organization. Note, however, that if we reflect cognitively upon our feelings, then this is not a recursive application of the specific communication, but reflection of the one kind of..

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