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[Twoday.tuwien.ac.at] Das Kybernetische Weblog: Bestehende Systeme die bis jetzt von einem User in Isolation genutzt wurden, und die nicht mit der Informationsflut mithalten konnten, können durch das Abbilden sozialer Prozesse die sich seit Ewigkeiten als evolutionär sinnvoll erwiesen haben, wieder skalieren, oder gar erstmalig in einem kollaborativen Kontext Sinn machen.

[Martismo.blogspot.com] feeding the mysteron: Which brings us to ecosystemic theory in psychology and its links with cybernetics. There were numerous well-known pioneers involved in the development of cybernetics - Nobert Wiener, John von Neumann, Warren McCulloch, Walter Pitts, Von Foerster, Maturana, Gregory Bateson, and numerous others. The field of scientific cybernetics, practically founded by Wiener through publication of his seminal work in 1948, Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, became one important branch of the burgeoning frontier of cybernetics. The scientific branch looked at control in machines, finding most of its early data in the focuses of war - notably guided missiles.

[Schoolof.info] The Blog of Christopher Austin: These system qualities, wholeness and interdependence, are important to the study and understanding of system theory. Systems are governed by dynamic interactions of their components; fixed arrangements are established that render it more efficient over time (von Bertalanffy, 1976). This ties in well with Wiener’s cybernetics that involves living systems that have the capacity to learn and reproduce (Wiener, 1961). This is what makes general systems theory not only an interesting read, but also heuristic in the sense that the theory can be applied to an innumerable number of situations.

[Schoolof.info] Sungjoon's weblog: However, the question of the possible dangers arises whether human beings can take control of such a complicated robot without any problems. Wieners with his optimistic perspective argues that it can be controlled by the advanced statistical techniques (Wiener, 1961). He admits that it is not perfectly controlled since there are some chances that the “noise”(unexpected factors) can bring about some unexpected results. Nevertheless, he insists that the unexpected behaviors caused by the “noise”, if they are averaged and we use the very advanced statistical methods, can be controlled since the possibility of “noise” occurring is within a certain range of prediction even though individual case can vary to some degrees.

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