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Stafford Beer in memoriam – ‘an argument of change’ three decades on. [PDF]
, 2005 Purpose This paper is written in memory of the late Stafford Beer. The paper engages with only one dimension of the whole man: Stafford Beer as the diagnostician and prognostician of the social conditions that he so keenly observed.
Thomas, Rod, van Zwanenberg, Nigel
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Second-Order Recursions of First-Order Cybernetics: An “Experimental Epistemology”
Open Philosophy, 2022 This article examines central tensions in cybernetics, defined as the study of self-organization, communication, automated feedback in organisms, and other distributed informational networks, from its wartime beginnings to its contemporary adaptations ...
Jeon Won
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Relationship between Cybernetics and Organizational Culture(Case Study: Alzahra University) [PDF]
بازیابی دانش و نظامهای معنایی, 2016 This study aimed to determine the relationship between cybernetics and organizational culture elements in the Faculties of Alzahra University. This study is kind of descriptive study.
Monireh Gharibeh Niazi, Roya Baradar
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Jens Glad Balchen: A Norwegian Pioneer in Engineering Cybernetics [PDF]
Modeling, Identification and Control, 2009 This paper tells the story of Jens Glad Balchen (1926-2009), a Norwegian research scientist and engineer who is widely regarded as the father of Engineering Cybernetics in Norway.
Morten Breivik, Gunnar Sand
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Upgrade of cybernetics in the context of developing creativity
Creativity Studies, 2020 The author attempted to consider upgrade of cybernetics in the context of developing creativity in modern scientific discourse. First-order cybernetics studied observed systems, second-order cybernetics dealt with observing systems, and third-order ...
Inna Vasylivna Knysh
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Norwich’s Entropy Theory: how not to go from abstract to actual [PDF]
, 2011 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to ask whether a first-order-cybernetics concept, Shannon’s Information Theory, actually allows a far-reaching mathematics of perception allegedly derived from it, Norwich et al.’s “Entropy Theory of Perception”.
Nizami, Lance
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, 2019 As a discipline cybernetics has a long and rich history. In its first generation it not only had a worldwide span, in the area of computer modelling, for example, its proponents such as John von Neumann, Stanislaw Ulam, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts,
Christen, Patrik, Del Fabbro, Olivier
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Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2020 This paper explores cybernetics as art as well as science. Aesthetics of cybernetics are found in harmony and joyfulness with increasing choice and creativity.
Sukjin Kang
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Philosophy Kitchen, 2023 This paper analyses the reception of Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics in France with particular attention to the perspective proposed by Gilbert Simondon.
Francesca Sunseri
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