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What is Cybernetics?

Cybernetics = study of dynamic relationships
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Well, fundamental to the program is a study of cybernetics. Cybernetics is basically the science or the art, the study of dynamic relationships.
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In our world One thing affects another It’s a causal world in which everything is interrelated Everything affects everything else. Cybernetics is a science of studying these effects. and looking at the world in terms of processes and systems. And as such, it enables us to make very useful analogies between natural systems and artificial systems, natural process and artificial systems that we might want to create to be useful to our lives. So a very well-known example is that actually the study of a flower, the way it gets nutrients, the way it distributes them, the way it has outputs and forms can be used as a way of studying a transportation system in a city.
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We’re altering with flow, interaction, development and so on. So, cybernetics works through analogies It works through models of connectivity.

Cybernetics is basically the science or the art, the study of dynamic relationships. In our world, one thing affects another. It is a causal world in which everything is interrelated. Everything affects everything else. Cybernetics is a science of studying these effects.

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