Brain of the Firm – Stafford Beer
“IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.” – Stafford Beer
General Systems Theory — Ludwig von Bertalannfy
“General system theory, therefore, is a general science of wholeness” — Ludwig von Bertalannfy
Tags: change, complexity, cybernetics, models, science, systems, Systems theory
Introduction to Cybernetics – Ross Ashby
“Principia Cybernetica has selected Ashby’s “Introduction to Cybernetics” as a classic book that deserved to be published again electronically. The original version has been out of print for many years. A few copies may still be found in libraries or ordered through the 
Amazon bookshop. However, we believe that the book is so important that it should reach as an wide audience as possible. The best medium to achieve that seemed to be the world-wide web. This publication has been made possible largely through Mick Ashby, the author’s grandson, who has convinced the copyright holders (the Ashby estate) that they should allow us to produce an electronic version.”
Tags: autopoiesis, cybernetics, Systems theory
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