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[dhcs: May 2010 | note that this is essentially a mirror of a Squidoo Lens constructed while I was involved in their beta program. It has not been kept up-to date since early 2006; with my recent “rediscovery” of it I will be bringing it up to date here, refreshing it, including fixing or striking any connections that have suffered from “web link rot” and perhaps this refurbishment might even lead to reflecting it back to its original site to see if it can fulfill the original design intent….)
Tags: cybernetics, management, POSIWID, Stafford Beer, VSM
[dhcs: May 2010 | note that this is essentially a mirror of a Squidoo Lens constructed while I was involved in their beta program. It has not been kept up-to date since early 2006; with my recent “rediscovery” of it I will be bringing it up to date here, refreshing it, including fixing or striking any connections that have suffered from “web link rot” and perhaps this refurbishment might even lead to reflecting it back to its original site to see if it can fulfill the original design intent….)
Tags: cybernetics
[dhcs: May 2010 | note that this is essentially a mirror of a Squidoo Lens constructed while I was involved in their beta program. It has not been kept up-to date since early 2006; with my recent “rediscovery” of it I will be bringing it up to date here, refreshing it, including fixing or striking any connections that have suffered from “web link rot” and perhaps this refurbishment might even lead to reflecting it back to its original site to see if it can fulfill the original design intent….)
Tags: cybernetics
[dhcs: May 2010 |
note that this is essentially a mirror of a Squidoo Lens constructed while I was involved in their beta program. It has not been kept up-to date since early 2006; with my recent “rediscovery” of it I will be bringing it up to date here, refreshing it, including fixing or striking any connections that have suffered from “web link rot” and perhaps this refurbishment might even lead to reflecting it back to its original site to see if it can fulfill the original design intent….)
A simple view of Cybernetics is as the science of communications and control in animal and machine.
Cybernetics, and the related domain of systems science , is the study all forms of “organized complexity”, that is how different components can be assembled in a way that is neither random nor repetitive so as to form a “system”.
Tags: cybernetics
being an updated version of the…
Cybernetics – start here guide
by
dsoul on Thu 12 Jan 2006 08:49 PM PST |
[dhcs: May 28, 2010 | please note: this piece was originally put in place for a predecessor weblog (http://cep.weblogger.com) as "Cybernetics - start here guide" and the original page was still under construction at the time that this new website was started.... in this new incarnation it is still, unfortunately, essentially a collection of "signposts" rather than a travel guide, however annotations will be added over time to turn it into (a) a true guide to the field and then onwards towards (b) the foundation of a "learning machine". The original concept of the 'start here guide' will be replaced by a series of new posts on this site over the next several weeks]
This is a preview of
Cybernetics Landmarks – a Travellers Guide
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Economic Scene: Four Ways to a Better Financial Bill – http://bit.ly/b9jCy6
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London outside of ‘top 30 cities’ – http://bit.ly/dB3JuY [Vancouver inside...]
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”— E.B. White
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Tags: Buridan's ass, paradox, philosophy, planning, quotes
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty…….. but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”— Richard Buckminster Fuller
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. — Murray Gell-Mann
Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople’s terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones?
Tags: Murray Gell-Mann, Particle physics, physics, Quantum Mechanics, TED, theory, truth
The UK national learned society
and professional body promoting
pure and applied cybernetics
Ten minute videos introducing cybernetics:
Javier Livas introduces cybernetics and its application to management, organization, the mind, the state, law, the financial system, chaos and the redesigning of Government:
Tags: crisis, cybernetics, management, Organization, requisite variety
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