https://past.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/?p=2639 July 30th to August 2nd 2010 (with surrounding events) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:03:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 https://past.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/?p=2639&cpage=1#comment-203 judy Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:04:39 +0000 https://past.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/?p=2639#comment-203 CYBERNETICS is a young discipline which, like applied mathematics, cuts across the entrenched departments of natural science: the sky, the earth, the animals and the plants. Its interdisciplinary character emerges when it considers economy not as an economist, biology not as a biologist, engines not as an engineer. In each case its theme remains the same, namely how systems regulate themselves, reproduce themselves, evolve and learn. (Gordon Pask, 1974, p.18) CYBERNETICS is a young discipline which, like applied mathematics,
cuts across the entrenched departments of natural science: the sky, the
earth, the animals and the plants. Its interdisciplinary character emerges
when it considers economy not as an economist, biology not as a
biologist, engines not as an engineer. In each case its theme remains the
same, namely how systems regulate themselves, reproduce themselves,
evolve and learn. (Gordon Pask, 1974, p.18)

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