Cybernetics

Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to control theory and systems theory. Both in its origins and in its evolution in the second-half of the 20th century, cybernetics is equally applicable to physical and social (that is, language-based) systems.
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Cybernetics Books

Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World

Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42)

Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition

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The Human Use of Human Beings by Norbert Wiener

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An Introduction to Cybernetics by William Ross Ashby

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Quotes Tagged “Cybernetics”

“ It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. ”
― Albert Einstein

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“ Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor. ”
― Norbert Weiner, Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

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