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Cybernetics

Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the outcomes of actions return as inputs for subsequent actions. It is concerned with general principles that are relevant across multiple contexts, including engineering, ecological, economic, biological, cognitive and social systems and also in…

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related to Further reading · 108
Cybernetics → Academic Press, AI, Allende's Chile, America, An, Andrew, Archived, Ascott, Beer, Behavioral Science, Behaviourist Art, Cambridge, Chapman, Charles, Chicago, Chicago Press, Chichester, Cie, Cliff Joslyn, Constructing
related to First wave · 34
Cybernetics → Animal, Arturo Rosenblueth, Behavior, Communication, Foerster, Foundation, Gregory Bateson, Heinz, Ideas Immanent, In, John, Josiah Macy, Jr, Julian Bigelow, Logical Calculus, Machine, Margaret Mead, McCulloch, Mexico, Nervous Activity
related to Second wave · 21
Cybernetics → American Society, ASC, Bateson, Champaign, Focuses, Foerster, Heinz, Illinois, It, Macy, Maturana, Mead, Mead's, Niklas Luhmann, Stafford Beer's, The, The Biological Computer Laboratory, This, University, Urbana
related to Journals and societies · 17
Cybernetics → Academic, An, Computational Social SystemsBiological CyberneticsConstructivist, Cybernetics Society, CyberneticsIEEE Transactions, FoundationsCybernetics, Human KnowingCybernetics, Human-Machine SystemsIEEE Transactions, IEEE Transactions, Journal, KybernetesTechnoetic Arts, Man, Speculative Research, Systems, SystemsEnacting Cybernetics, SystemsIEEE Transactions, Ubiquity Press
related to Etymology · 16
Cybernetics → According, Alcibiades, André-Marie Ampère, Animal, Arturo Rosenblueth, Communication, In, It, Machine, Norbert Wiener, Or Control, Plato's Republic, The Ancient Greek, The French, Wiener, Wiener's
related to External links · 16
Cybernetics → Archived, August, Basics, Comparative AnalysisReading List, Cybernetics Principia Cybernetica WebWeb, Dictionary, General Norbert Wiener, January, July, Livas, Retrieved, Stefan Odobleja, SystemsGlossary Slideshow, Wayback Machine, What, YouTube
related to Definitions · 11
Cybernetics → American, Andrey Kolmogorov, André-Marie Ampère, Another, Gregory Bateson, Macy, Margaret Mead, Norbert Wiener, One, Other, Ross Ashby
has application · 9
Cybernetics → Allende, As, Chile, In, Latin America, Many, Project Cybersyn, Stafford Beer, The
see also · 8
Cybernetics → AutomationArtificial, CyberneticaSelf-organization, CyberneticsControl, Encyclopedia, Haken, Human BeingsIndustrial, Human Use, TektologyViable
related to Third wave · 6
Cybernetics → Early, Emerging, From, Practical, Re-examinations, The

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feedback systems theory social wiener control include circular also isbn machine science cybernetic developed norbert research society press processes cybernetics'

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Cyberneticsis atransdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion0.90text
Cyberneticsis arecursive application of cybernetics to itself and the practice of cybernetics according to such a critique.SchismogenesisSelf-organisationSocial systems theorySyntegrityVariety…0.90text
feedbackinstance ofCybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes0.80text
recursioninstance ofCybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes0.80text
where the outcomes of actions return as inputs for subsequent actionsinstance ofCybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes0.80text
designinginstance ofcognitive and social systems and also in practical activities0.80text
learninginstance ofcognitive and social systems and also in practical activities0.80text
and managinginstance ofcognitive and social systems and also in practical activities0.80text
the Macy conferencesinstance ofInitial developments were consolidated through meetings0.80text
the Ratio Clubinstance ofInitial developments were consolidated through meetings0.80text
the study of artificial neural networks were downplayedinstance ofcybernetic sciences0.80text
the thermostatinstance oftechnological devices0.80text

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