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C. Fuchs, G. Stockinger:
"The Autocreativity of Communication and the Re-Creativity of Actions in Social Systems";
in: "Emergence, Causality, Self-Organisation", C. Fuchs, V. I. Arshinov (ed.); NIA-Priroda, Moskau, 2003, ISBN: 5-9562-0006-5, 303 - 321.

Christian Fuchs and Gottfried Stockinger ("The Autocreation of Communication and the Re-creation of Actions in Social Systems") point out fundamental aspects of social self-organisation. Social systems and the human being would be creative, communications and human actions would be important aspects of social self-organisation. Social systems would be auto- and re-creative systems: from the perspective of communication, social self-organisation would denote the permanent creation of reality through concatenation of communication units in a self-referential mode (auto-creativity). From the perspective of the human actor, social self-organisation would denote a permanent reflexive interaction process related and coupled to social structures (re-creativity) where social structures are medium and outcome of social actions. Auto-creative communications and re-creative actions would be mutually dependent and coupled and together would enable the self-organisation of social systems and society. The main argument of Fuchs and Stockinger is that the creativity of social systems is based on autopoietic or self-reproducing processes on both the level of communications and the level of actors and that on both levels creativity is an important feature. They argue that co-operative social self-organisation could be a principle that puts forward co-operative intelligence (CI).

http://www.self-organization.org/results/book/EmergenceCausalitySelf-Organisation.pdf