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Title: Sixty years of cybernetics: cybernetics still alive (English)
Author: Havel, Ivan M.
Language: English
Journal: Kybernetika
ISSN: 0023-5954
Volume: 44
Issue: 3
Year: 2008
Pages: 314-327
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: 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. (English)
Keyword: cybernetics
Keyword: general systems
Keyword: transdisciplinarity
Keyword: feedback
Keyword: self-reference
Keyword: collective phenomena
Keyword: scales
Keyword: hierarchies
Keyword: emergence
Keyword: downward causation
Keyword: connectnism
Keyword: chaos
Keyword: autopoiesis
Keyword: domains of discourse
Keyword: causal domains
Keyword: metaphors
MSC: 01A60
MSC: 68-03
MSC: 93-03
idZBL: Zbl 1154.01305
idMR: MR2436034
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Date available: 2009-09-24T20:34:41Z
Last updated: 2012-06-06
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/135853
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