Cybernetics

Foundational concepts in systems thinking, feedback, and the science of control and communication.

Thinkers

• W. Ross Ashby — Requisite variety, homeostasis
• Gregory Bateson — Double bind, ecology of mind
• Stafford Beer — Viable System Model, management cybernetics
• Nick Land — Accelerationism, hyperstition
• Claude Shannon — Information theory
• Francisco Varela — Autopoiesis, enactivism
• Norbert Wiener — Founder of cybernetics

Concepts

• Functionalism — Philosophy of mind: function over substrate