I have not read any of Stafford Beer’s entries in the Select Bibliography included in The Heart of Enterprise, so cannot make any recommendations on the entries included here at the time this item is added to the series… it will be updated as I move forward with construction of my own “learning machine”

Level III

Ackoff, R.L. and Emery, F.E., On Purposeful Systems, Aldin-Atherton, NY, 1966

Miller, J.G. Living Systems, McGraw-Hill, 1978

Level IV

Whyte, Lancelot Law, Internal Factors in Evolution, Tavistock Publications, 1965

Pask, Gordon, The Cybernetics of Human Learning and Performance, Hutchinson Education, 1975

Buckley, Walter, Modern Systems Research for the Behavioural Scientist, Aldine, Chicago, 1968

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