Francis
I am unable to find your paper. What is is the title of your paper?
kindest
gavin
Francis Heylighen wrote:
> As I announced some time ago, I was invited to write a review paper
> on cybernetics for the Encyclopedia of Physical Science & Technology
> (3rd ed.), (Academic Press). The final version of the paper is now
> ready, and available at
> http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Cybernetics-EPST.pdf
>
> Although it is obviously very difficult to summarize all the main
> ideas of cybernetics in a single paper without remaining very
> superficial, I think my co-author Cliff Joslyn and I have managed to
> do a quite decent job, and I would recommend the paper to anybody who
> wants to get an introduction to and overview of the main concepts
> (e.g. variety, feedback, closure, control, constructivism, ...) and
> principles (e.g. law of requisite variety, requisite hierarchy,
> self-organization, ...) of cybernetics.
>
> Where possible, the ideas have been made explicit using simple
> formulas and diagrams. Since this is meant for a "hard science"
> encyclopedia, we have focused more on the "hard" ideas, and less on
> the philosophical, social and psychological implications, although
> these are implicit throughout the article.
>
> We thank Val Turchin and Ranulph Glanville for reviewing the
> manuscript and suggesting improvements. Although the Encyclopedia
> requested us to write the paper in an "authoritative" manner, as if
> we were expressing the general consensus in the field, it is obvious
> that such a consensus does not really exist, and therefore the paper
> should be read as our own view on cybernetics. Still, I think we have
> managed to include most of the ideas that cyberneticians generally
> agree upon, although other authors might have liked to put the
> emphasis differently.
>
> -----------------------------------------
> Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics
>
> Francis Heylighen
> Free University of Brussels
>
> Cliff Joslyn
> Los Alamos National Laboratory
>
> Contents
> I.Historical Development of Cybernetics
> I.1.Origins
> I.2.Second Order Cybernetics
> I.3.Cybernetics Today
>
> II.Relational Concepts
> II.1.Distinctions and Relations
> II.2.Variety and Constraint
> II.3.Entropy and Information
> II.4.Modelling Dynamics
>
> III.Circular Processes
> III.1.Self-Application
> III.2.Self-Organization
> III.3.Closure
> III.4.Feedback Cycles
>
> IV.Goal-Directedness and Control
> IV.1.Goal-Directedness
> IV.2.Mechanisms of Control
> IV.3.The Law of Requisite Variety
> IV.4.Components of a Control System
> IV.5.Control Hierarchies
>
> V.Cognition
> V.1.Requisite Knowledge
> V.2.The Modelling Relation
> V.3.Learning and Model-Building
> V.4.Constructivist Epistemology
>
> Bibliography
> --
>
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Dr. Francis Heylighen <fheyligh@vub.ac.be> -- Center "Leo Apostel"
> Free University of Brussels, Krijgskundestr. 33, 1160 Brussels, Belgium
> tel +32-2-6442677; fax +32-2-6440744; http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
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