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Tag Name "Cybernetics" (10)

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Cybernetics is NOT the banana.
Heinz von Foerster
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The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.
Norman Mailer
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If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.
Anthony Stafford Beer
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The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence
Francisco Varela
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Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.
Guy Davenport
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Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.
Heinz von Foerster
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The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,' from the Greek (Kybernetes = navigator or steersman), subsequently adopted as cybernetics by Norbert Weiner for the field of control and communication theory.
Andre-Marie Ampere
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Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.
Claude Shannon
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With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language, and led to numerous new methodologies and applications -- systems engineering, systems analysis, systems dynamics, and so on.
Fritjof Capra
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First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.
Heinz von Foerster