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The net behaves systemically and "in secondary real-time." 15 Direct reactions cannot be expected, less as a result of technical delays - that is, the time that information needs to cover great distances even when the transport is very rapid - but rather on account of its essentially interactively regulated behavior. Reciprocal exchange of information changes the nodes of the information distribution system which are involved. This modulation goes on to effect the information; the system becomes an information generating system. Ultimately, the transmitted information changes the system and the system changes the transmitted information. This relationship is reflexive and describes the transition from information to communication. Models which describe this information-generating and system-generating behavior through interaction have been put forth in the late 1950s in, for example, group psychology. Purely mathematical systems theories are complemented by those from experimental psychology, including complex theories of the generation of knowledge, of decision-making on the basis of knowledge, and, finally, of "irrational" behavior. They constitute models that imply learning and that are artificially intelligent. 16. In *Liquid Space*, a program is used that takes into account the formation of their structure by means of interaction with the communicated information. That which has been empirically investigated in group psychology 17, tried out artistically in free jazz, and simulated in electronic and interactive arts is available now as knowledge about the self-structuring of communication which takes shape out of its informal processes in formalized form and is technically manageable to a very high extent. But this is not a matter of applying these communication theories - and the exclusion of information theories - to network-linked electronic communication; rather, this has do with intentionally conducting the two in parallel fashion, from which we expect to obtain insights into the sociopolitical implications of electronic networks and into the generation of knowledge by them. 18
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