Jason Jixuan

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Jason Jixuan has joined ISSS in 19XX.

Personal Life

Jason Jixuan Hu (born 1957, Kunming, People’s Republic of China) is a Chinese American cyberneticist, independent scholar, and managing director of the WINTOP Organizational Learning Laboratory. He is also the organizer and facilitator of the Club of Remy. Hu is known for his work on cognitive capacity in human communication, conflict resolution, and cooperation solicitation, as well as for his views on distance education in the United States.

Academia and Career

Hu received a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the Heilongjiang Institute of Commerce in 1981 and was certified as a System Engineer in System Dynamics Modeling by the Sino-Japanese Software Developing Center in 1985. In 1986, he went to the United States as a visiting scholar to study cybernetics and systems science. He later earned a Ph.D. from The George Washington University in 1995, with a primary focus on Management and Organizations and a secondary focus on the Philosophy of Social Sciences. After returning briefly to China in 1988, he left following the events of June 4, 1989, and later became a United States citizen after September 11, 2001.

Hu’s academic interests were shaped by systems thinkers including Tsien Hsue-shen, Jin Guangtao, Jay Forrester, Stuart Umpleby, Heinz von Foerster, Humberto Maturana, Russell Ackoff, and others. In 1993, he completed a manuscript titled Introduction to Cybernetics, which outlined a framework of key principles and inquiry themes; it later served as course material in guest lectures at several universities in the United States and China. His subsequent work developed along three primary lines: applications of cybernetics to human communication (which he termed “Communicatics”); organizational development and leadership training through the WINTOP Roundtable Leadership Program (with “TOP” referring to Technology of Participation); and efforts to introduce large-scale education models in China, including the Apollo Project (1999–2002). Through WINTOP, he has also been involved in consulting and training initiatives and in translating selected works on systems thinking into Chinese.

Hu is the managing director of the WINTOP Organizational Learning Laboratory, based in Phoenix, Arizona, and organizes the Club of Remy, an international discussion forum. He is a lifetime member of the American Society for Cybernetics and initiated the CYBCOM forum in 1993. His later research has focused on cognitive capability and theories of civilization evolution. He has traveled extensively and conducted cross-cultural studies in multiple countries, and speaks Mandarin and English, with limited proficiency in German and Japanese.

Special Interests

Hu's inquiries can be classified into three periods:

• His early work (1982–1993) focused on social problem-identification due to his overwhelming experience with the severe social pathologies in PRC caused by communism as well as by the unhealthy elements of the Chinese traditions.His inquiry about what's wrong in the society of China started at his teenager years during the notorious "cultural revolution" stirred up by Mao.
• His mid-term work (1993–2009) were social-solution oriented, focusing on a new communication theory, large-scale education model, and grassroot participation model, and his scope of concern expanded from the country of China to the country of the United States, and to the sustainability issues of the whole planet.
• Hu's latest work (2010–current) is to establish a theory of the evolution of our civilization based on a synthesis of the cultural gene hypothesis with the multi-layer self-organization theory, which is his extension of classic (single-step) self-organization theories (e.g. of Ashby, Von Foerster, Prigogine & Haken.) This theory provides a new perspective to understand the history, the current status and the possible futures of the human civilization, suggesting priorities for and calling for attentions of action leaders at various levels in our societies.
• Hu has also developed a four-dimensional system thinking framework which was applied to comparative study of organizational dynamics, an expansion of Ashby's law of requisite variety, a taxonomy of system thinking, and to a new perspective of second-order cybernetics and second-order science.

Video Presentations

Club of Remy YouTube Channel

Selected Publications

• Hu, Jixuan (January 1988). "On the Two-Phase Phenomenon of Value Sets". Cybernetics and Systems. 19 (6): 479–490. doi:10.1080/01969728808902181.
• Hu, Jixuan (January 1988). "The End of Utopia: On the Nondesignability of Social Systems". Cybernetics and Systems. 19 (6): 491–500. doi:10.1080/01969728808902182.
• Hu, Jixuan; Sun, Xiaoyun (July 1991). "China's Economic Reform as a Case of Large-Scale Social Change". Cybernetics and Systems. 22 (4): 505–514. doi:10.1080/01969729108902297.
• Hu, J. X. (1994). "O niemożliwości projektowania systemów żywych: wnioski z nieudanego eksperymentu krajów socjalistycznych. Projektowanie i systemy". Agadnienia Metodologiczne Nauk Praktycznych. 14: 64–65.
• Hu, Jixuan (June 1995). "Communicatics and communicationism as knowledge tools for a sustainable civilization". Proceedings 1995 Interdisciplinary Conference: Knowledge Tools for a Sustainable Civilization. Fourth Canadian Conference on Foundations and Applications of General Science Theory. pp. 282–291. doi:10.1109/ktsc.1995.569184. ISBN 978-0-7803-3365-9. S2CID 152605204.
• Hu, J. J. (June 2014). "Two human fates of human becoming are we splitting into two species?". 2014 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW). pp. 1–5. doi:10.1109/norbert.2014.6893914. ISBN 978-1-4799-4562-7. S2CID 11717379.
• Hu, Jason Jixuan (2015). "Anthropocene? Yes, but Stratified – Measuring Existing Societies with Civilization Level Index". Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2015 Berlin, Germany. 1 (1).

Citations

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Links to relevant pages

https://drjasonhu.com/