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

Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition

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

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“ cause and effect act in webs, not chains. ”
― Steve Grand, Creation: Life and How to Make It

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“ If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand how to think about systems governed simultaneously by two sources of order, Yet who seeing the snowflake, who seeing simple lipid molecules cast adrift in water forming themselves into cell-like hollow lipid vesicles, who seeing the potential for the crystallization of life in swarms of reacting molecules, who seeing the stunning order fo ...more ”
― Stuart Kauffman

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