Anything said is said by an observer.


Anything said is said by an observer. In his discourse the observer speaks to another observer, who could be himself; whatever applies to the one applies to the other as well. The observer is a human being, that is, a living system, and whatever applies to living systems applies also to him.

The observer beholds simultaneously the entity that he considers (an organisms, in our case) and the universe in which it lies (the organism's environment). This allows him to interact independently with both and to have interactions that are necessarily outside the domain of interactions of the observed identity. (BC 6)

An observer is a system such that through recursive interactions with its own linguistic states may always remain in a position to interact with the representations of its interactions. (CS)


This page was last updated on July 9, 1996, by Rob Sable.