Third Order Cybernetics

When a whole system acknowledges its surroundings

First Order Cybernetics emerged from engineering, therefore tended to see systems as objects.
Second Order Cybernetics started explored the internal dynamics of the system.
Third Order Cybernetics regards a system more as an active-interactive element in a circuit.
It acknowledged the way that a whole system may redirect itself in order to adapt to its context.
Therefore, the observer and the system co-evolve together.
This mean that the observer can see himself as part of the system under examination.
Each player in a musical ensemble, for example, listens to each other player, and to his, or her, own instrument.
The whole ensemble may then play as a unified, emergent sound, as though all the instruments play as one.
This is a kind of System Transformation.
Wittgenstein's language games may help to explain the complexity of this.
It will be evident that in this case the System itself is regarded from the perspective of a Loop in First Order Cybernetics.