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Cybernetics Still Alive

Havel, Ivan M. (2008) Cybernetics Still Alive. [Journal (Paginated)]

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Abstract

This informal essay, written on the occasion of 60th anniversary of Wienerian cybernetics, presents a series of themes and ideas that has emerged during last several decades and which have direct or indirect relationships to the principal concepts of cybernetics. Moreover, they share with original cybernetics the same transdisciplinary character.

Item Type:Journal (Paginated)
Keywords:cybernetics, general systems, transdisciplinarity, feedback, self-reference, collective phenomena, scales, hierarchies, emergence, downward causation, connectnism, chaos, autopoiesis, domains of discourse, causal domains, metaphors
Subjects:JOURNALS
ID Code:6942
Deposited By: Havel, Prof. Ivan M.
Deposited On:13 Sep 2010 03:58
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:57

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