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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
An Introduction to Cybernetics
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
Brain of the Firm (Classic Beer Series)
Designing Freedom
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
The Cybernetic Hypothesis
Design for a Brain
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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Center-Brained by E. Patsy GreenlandOut of Control by Kevin KellyCybernetics by Norbert WienerBrain of the Firm by Stafford BeerAn Introduction to Cybernetics by William Ross Ashby
Best Cybernetics Books
47 books — 39 voters
Engineering Communism by Steven T. UsdinNew Atlantis Revisited by Paul R. JosephsonHow Not to Network a Nation by Benjamin PetersComputing in Russia by Georg TrogemannFrom Newspeak to Cyberspeak by Slava Gerovitch
Soviet Computing
44 books — 3 voters

Quotes Tagged “Cybernetics”

“ cause and effect act in webs, not chains. ”
― Steve Grand, Creation: Life and How to Make It
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“ Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress ”
― Steve Grand, Creation: Life and How to Make It
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