Socio-Economic Cybernetics Transformation Trends

Abstract

AbstractThe purpose—It is proposed to consider high-order socio-economic cybernetics as the basis of a new socio-economic structure. Which with the economy of individual subject-oriented production (ISOP) will ensure the transition from a mass consumer society to a society of producers and consumers of custom-made intellectual products, and it can be defined as a creative society—a society of Creators.An attempt is made to substantiate that the transition to ISOP changing the psychology of consumption in the spirit of post-nonclassical rationality. The rationality of consumption harmonizes the cognitive personality with the noosphere, and the use of evolutionary developments of living nature will contribute to the conservation of resources and energy. Since the new structure is impossible without the transformation of the political system, it is proposed to consider the transition to the polity of the Democracy of Creators, which is the convergence of direct democracy and a broad creative aristocracy.Methodology—When analysing the problem under consideration, were used the works on the general theory of systems, the concept of V.S. Stepin on post-non-classical rationality, G.G. Malinetskiy and other authors on synergetics and prediction of the behaviour of complex systems, the works of V.E. Lepskiy and his colleagues on control systems in the context of post-non-classical scientific rationality and the formation of third-order cybernetics based on self-developing reflective-active media. Additionally, works on Decision-making theory, Political science, Sociology, Behavioral economics, Ecological economics and the Ecosystem economy were considered.Findings—The transition to ISOP will stimulate the formation of a new socio-economic structure, to which will correspond the socio-economic high-order cybernetics. It will rely on a collective mind, built on decentralized human interaction based on subject-oriented intelligent information technologies, and is aimed at providing each subject with creative independence in the development and adoption of collective decisions.In the spirit of post-non-classical scientific rationality, considering the pluralism of views and different positions of members of society, the new structure will lead to more harmonious cognitive competition and the formation of constructive ethical norms of interaction in society.The reliability and robustness of state decisions is significantly increased due to the formation of a collective decision-maker who, using Blockchain technology, will quickly make decisions in real-time.The system, in the spirit of multivalued logic, will constantly go through 3 cyclic stages in the form of probes, estimates and generation of a new more optimal system using positive feedback, then stabilization due to negative feedback at the achieved level of multi-parameter optimization, and then improvement within the framework of a new dynamically changing social homeostasis.The proposed solutions based on a wide planning horizon correspond to modern conditions and trends in socio-economic development, including decentralization based on new principles and the reasonable formation of a new environmental reality.Originality—The socioeconomic cybernetics under consideration is based on the paradigm “cognitive subject—decentralized interaction system—cognitive subjects”. In such a system, each subject is approached from the standpoint of the requirements of the polity Democracy of Creators, considering it as a cognitive personality.Research implications—According to the author, the work may be useful to researchers in the field of analysing the work of complex social self-organizing reflective-active systems.Research limitations—The author considers general approaches that, with further analysis, can be supplemented and adjusted.KeywordsCustomer-centric smart economyHuman-intelligent instrument interactionDemocracy of creators