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Norbert Wiener — Cybernetics (1948): The Animal and the Machine Are One

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Norbert Wiener — Cybernetics (1948): The Animal and the Machine Are One

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Feedback loops govern both living organisms and machines.

Living things and machines obey identical control laws.

Control systems share three components regardless of substrate: sensor, comparator, actuator.

Noise and entropy are mathematically kin.

Systems that sense and correct persist; systems that do not, dissolve.

Some stability is passive equilibrium, not active control.

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Feedback loops govern both living organisms and machines.
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Living things and machines obey identical control laws.
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Control systems share three components regardless of substrate: sensor, comparator, actuator.
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Noise and entropy are mathematically kin.
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Systems that sense and correct persist; systems that do not, dissolve.
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Some stability is passive equilibrium, not active control.
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speculative0.65
Not everything that looks like feedback is feedback.
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speculative0.60
Cybernetics overreached into sociology and economics; those extensions remain contested.
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