Second-order cybernetics includes the observer. The role of observation is notorious in the physics of quantum theory. And so it is natural to examine both quantum theory and cybernetics. Quantum theory is a theory of possibility and relationship. As such it has many links to cybernetics. The purpose of this essay is to give a picture of the quantum viewpoint as a logic of possibility. I leave to open discussion the relationships of this theory with details of cybernetics. As a logic of possibility, quantum theory transcends its beginnings and imagines a world in which processes have primacy over things, and actualities are only reference points in an opening where only relationships have true reality.
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