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