Second Order Cybernetics

But then what does "child" mean? As it seems, this expression denotes the invention of the medium for purposes of communication. Since Aries' seminal publication, one knows (or: one dares to assume) that the child is a semantic entity, which must be distinguished from the organisms and the psychic peculiarities of the post-growing human beings.

What’s the backstory of what I’m calling the multicomputational paradigm? For me, the realization that one can formulate such a broad and general new paradigm is something that’s emerged only over the past year or so. But given what we now know it’s possible to go back and see a quite tangled web of indications and precursors of it stretching back decades and perhaps more than a century.