is essentially the arrival of redundancy in a system, a reduction of possibilities.
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Von Foerster, Heinz. Understanding understanding: essays on cybernetics and cognition. New York: Springer, 2003, p. viii (Preface).
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[…] Complexity and *Order* are two independant features of an observed system. Order, which is Negative Entropy, may increase without increase in complexity: and complexity might increase without change of entropy. -- Pringle, On the Parallel Between Learning and Evolution, p. 176
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History itself, if it only begins, creates order. It reminds, you might say selectively, and forgets most of it. It renews itself as memory (the moderns say: as "culture") only if, and only in so far as, the operations that reproduce society give cause to reimpregnate the memory of the system. z#1986
* Systemgedächtnis * Temporal Order of society * Social Order of society * Symbolic Order * Being as an irreflexive form of order limited to itself. * Order From Noise