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Problems with Abstract Observers and Advantages of a Model-Centric Cybernetics Paradigm
Systems, 2022 Since 1974, when Heinz von Foerster made the distinction between “the cybernetics of observed systems” as first-order cybernetics (1oC) and “the cybernetics of observing systems” as second-order cybernetics (2oC), cybernetics has been dominated by this ...
Mick Ashby
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Mapping the Evolution of Cybernetics: A Bibliometric Perspective
Computers, 2023 In this study, we undertake a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the cybernetics research field. We compile a dataset of 4856 papers from the ISI Web of Science database spanning 1975–2022, employing keywords related to cybernetics.
Bianca Cibu +3 more
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Comparison of control approaches in different levels of cybernetic systems based on information theories [PDF]
نشریه مطالعات دانشپژوهی, 2023 Purpose: The most important part of cybernetics is the study of how to control exchanging of information, and the statistical phenomena resulting from this control, which simultaneously exist in advanced computing machines (such as computers) and living ...
Adeleh Asadi shally
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Philosophy Kitchen, 2023 The purpose of this article is to present epistemological justifications for the cybernetic programme drawing on a historical reconstruction of cybernetics, although this is not a philosophical discipline.
Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi
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Verso un’ecologia generale. Per una cibernetica delle differenze
Philosophy Kitchen, 2021 The present paper investigates different ways of employing cybernetics to define a general ecology. In An Introduction to Cybernetics, Ross Ashby distinguishes between a pragmatic, a therapeutic, and an encyclopedic function of cybernetics. Pragmatic and
Luca Fabbris
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Five Points Towards an Architecture In-Formation
Footprint, 2021 While there have been significant discussions about the relevance of cybernetics within architectural and urban studies, the focus has mainly been on computing and digital practices.
Stavros Kousoulas, Dulmini Perera
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CYBERNETIC BASIS AND SYSTEM PRACTICE OF REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCE [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017 Cybernetics provides a new set of ideas and methods for the study of modern science, and it has been fully applied in many areas. However, few people have introduced cybernetics into the field of remote sensing.
X. Tan +13 more
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A Short History of Cybernetics in the United States
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2008 Key events in the history of cybernetics and the American Society for Cybernetics are discussed, among them the origin of cybernetics in the Macy Foundation conferences in the late 1940s and early 1950s; different interpretations of cybernetics by ...
Stuart A. Umpleby
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The Unmeaning Machine. Cybernetics from Semiotics to AI
Philosophy Kitchen, 2023 This paper partly retraces the impact of cybernetics on the issue of meaning, showing 1) how cybernetics and information theory prepared the epistemic conditions for semantics-focused approaches to Artificial Intelligence (AI); and 2) that cybernetics ...
Niccolò Monti
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La cibernetica prima della cibernetica. Filosofia, scienza e tecnica in Norbert Wiener (1914-1943)
Philosophy Kitchen, 2023 The paper provides a survey of Norbert Wiener’s scientific work prior to the publication of Cybernetics. Within it, an attempt is made to identify the philosophical-scientific background of cybernetics and to reconstruct the generative process of its ...
Marco Ferrari
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