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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"cybernetics"”.
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The cybernetics of language
… a complement to the philosophy of language, the cybernetics of language-is to synthesise a picture of language as a whole; and runs into-(descriptive) difficulties where (at any one time) we can only speak about bounded portions of the world (Wittgenstein). This same difficulty permeates the …
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Children, cybernetics, and programmable turtles
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1988.
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Conceptual and cognitive problems in cybernetics
Controversies have existed for some time about cybernetics as a subject and difficulties have existed for students in obtaining an overview despite the fact that at some level several cybernetics concepts can be grasped by twelve year olds. An attempt is made to unpack the notion of a subject …
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Some Applications of Cybernetics to Social Systems
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Cybernetics, AI and Modernisation in Contemporary China
… modernisation pathway through the lens of cybernetics, a discipline centred on systems control and engineering that has fundamentally influenced governance structures and bureaucratic authority. Moving beyond the existing analyses of China’s development that emphasize economic reforms or …
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Information Technology and Wealth: Cybernetics, History and Economics
<p>Capitalism developed where and when it did because there was high information access. There was high information access because of a major advance in information technology--the press. Where the technology was not controlled by the "powers that be" there was economic growth and a shift in the …
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American gadgets: cybernetics, consumer electronics, and twentieth-century us fiction
Challenging the argument that liberal humanism faces extinction in the face of ubiquitous digital technologies, my dissertation analyzes the ways in which consumer electronics reinscribe the human subject as a privileged category in the information age. Through spaces like the Matrix, Windows 7, or …
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Care of the Machine Self: physiology, cybernetics, humanistic systems in ergonomics
This dissertation discusses the ways that scientific thought and philosophy have theorized human life and machines in western thought.
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The cybernetics of organisations with implications for a theory of intelligence
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.
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Comments on the cybernetics of stability and regulation in social systems
The methods and principles of cybernetics are applied to a discussion of stability and regulation in social systems taking a global viewpoint. The fundamental but still classical notion of stability as applied to homeostatic and ultrastable systems is discussed, with a particular reference to a …
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Merging the Natural with the Artificial: The Nature of a Machine and the Collapse of Cybernetics
… thesis is concerned with the rise and fall of cybernetics, understood as an inquiry regarding the nature of a machine. The collapse of this scientific movement, usually explained by external factors such as lack of funding, will be addressed from a philosophical standpoint. Delving deeper into …
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The cybernetics of nonzero sum games – the prisoner's dilemma reinterpreted as a pure conflict game with nature, with empirical applications
… Detailed connections between game theory and cybernetics are discussed.
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The cybernetics of socio-economic change and development - Social technology: The organisation of the change and evolution of socio-economic systems
This discussion is written in a descriptive manner, firstly because of the nature of the phenomenon investigated as the appropriate quantitative metric has yet to be invented, secondly because of the importance of the cybernetic-systems approach to some of the more critical questions facing man, …
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Governing Social Bodies: Affect and Number in Contemporary Cricket
Two recent cybernetics-derived academic disciplines, biomechanics and operations research, have worked to reshape cricket. Liberalization and the consequent large flows of money into the game have resulted in a transformation in how the game is regulated, coached, and played. In this dissertation, …
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Biosemiotics as systems theory: an investigation into biosemiotics as the grounding for a new form of cultural analysis
… 1945) the thesis argues that biosemiotics and cybernetics/systems theory share a systems thinking which is grounded in 'transdisciplinarity', 'history' and 'function'. This thesis also argues that such a common methodological perspective is an instance of historical continuity due primarily to …
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The viable governance model (VGM) : a theoretical model of IT governance with a corporate setting
… that is based on the laws and principles of cybernetics as embodied in Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM). Cybernetics, the science of control and communication in biological and artificial systems, establishes a firm theoretical foundation upon which to design a system that directs …
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A genetic approach to management education and the science of teaching
In this thesis the philosophy and mechanisms of Cybernetics are applied to Management Education. A philosophical analysis of Management Education is developed and the notion of teleology introduced. Change, dynamic stability and a concept of self-renewal are employed in a cybernetic framework for …
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The Politics of Conspiracy Theory and Control: Cybernetic Governmentality and the Scripted Political
… conspiracy theory discourses in the context of cybernetics and related transformations in politics that have tended to reduce democratic representativeness and increase forms of economic and political inequality. Cybernetics, which is often defined as the science of command and control, offers a …
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A cybernetic perspective on policy-making and planning in local government
… account of their failure to question this view. Cybernetics, it is argued, offers a fundamentally different perspective on planning, which emphasises the importance of processes, whereby the plans and policies of different organisations are mutually adjusted to each other - from the bottom up. …
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An intellectual history of the School for Designing a Society
… artists such as Brün; the development of cybernetics as an interdisciplinary field; the attempt of Brün and cyberneticians to offer an experimental interdisciplinary course in 1968. As the 1960s faded out, a new crop of music composition students rallied around Brün. They formed an …
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