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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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Most binds involve metaphors, emotions, feelings, human qualities. Thus, the binds mostly prompt us to be rational, push us to decide one way or another, to declare when something is wrong or good; this reflexive spark is generated by a bind. Reasoning is a secondary process, and exists only to reinforce the initial bind.
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― Gregory Bateson Variations: A View of Complex Ideas: Binds, Double Binds, Schismogenesis, Second- and Third-Order Cybernetics, René Girard, and More
― Gregory Bateson Variations: A View of Complex Ideas: Binds, Double Binds, Schismogenesis, Second- and Third-Order Cybernetics, René Girard, and More
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The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.
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― From Eros to Gaia
― From Eros to Gaia
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