Researching Ourselves

Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol. 23, No. 4 (2025) written by Jeremy Horne, Ph.D. based on the work of John Voris (Authentic Systems).

Education, research, and methodologies form an organic unit that is the essence of human identity. Education is the object (which also is a process); research is the domain of process in which knowledge is to be found; methodology is the manner in which a person is to bring information into the mind that is to be transformed into knowledge. Education etymologically stems from conducting or leading, that is knowing oneself. It is transdisciplinary, recursive, and second-order cybernetic, all aspects of organicity, or life, itself. It is not enough to realize these things; we need to apprehend the context in which these are set, i.e., our universe, itself, conscious and organic, as we are.
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