NLP and cybernetics (was re - Principia Cybernetica News)
Laurence.Millar@vuw.ac.nz ("Laurence.Millar@vuw.ac.nz")
Thu, 26 Nov 1998 02:51:01 +1300
What is it about NLP that you think warrants the description "cybernetic".
I can see that the balancing and synchronisation of transmitter and reciever
that NLP focuses on has some relevance, but I alwyas understood Cybernetics
to be about self-regulation - and NLP suggests that there is a potential for
an overseet to consciously intervene in the workings of the dialogue.
Having written that it seems to me that maybe NLP is an instantiation of a
viable system with the systems 1,2 and 3* interacting with the environment,
and the techniques suggested by B&G operating at levels 4 &5
>Are the users aware that NLP Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a cybernetic
model,
>created by Bandler & Grinder in the 1970's.
>
Laurence Millar
PhD student, Communications Studies, Victoria University
"At the stillpoint of the turning world, there the dance is" T S Eliot