OBSERVATION PROCESS: A Constructivist Interpretation 3)
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F. HEYLIGHEN explains: "In a realist interpretation, a state is an intrinsic property of a system, which is independent of the observer"… This may indeed be correct per se, but it is of no practical use, since… "In a constructivist interpretation, a state is a construct resulting from an interaction between the system and the observer, which is such that it allows the observer to find a maximum of coherence between the different results of observations (i.e. subject-object interactions). In general, no construction (representation) is optimal, and the advantages and disavantages of a particular representation may be counterbalanced by different advantages and disadvantages of another representation." (1990b, p.498).
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