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Posted by Abbas AL-Midhar on January 14, 2008, 4:06 am
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capacity.
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* Opsroom, a new environment for decision, and dependent for its
* existence on the existence of the other three.
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* Cybernet was a system whereby every single factory in the country,
* contained within the nationalized social economy, could be in
* communication with a computer.
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* The intention of Cybernet was to make computer power available to the
* workers' committees in every factory.
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* How could this be done?
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* The basic idea was that crucial indices of performance in every plant
* should be transmitted daily to the computers, where they would be
* processed and examined for any kind of important signal that they
* contained. If there was any sort of warning implied by these data,
* then an alerting signal would be sent back to the managers of the
* plant concerned.
What are 'arousal filter' and 'homeostatic loops'?
The scope of Cybernetics is, in a word, awesome.
A cyberneticist can talk from atoms to cells to nervous systems, to
management of a company, country, world, solar system.
Whether an organism is mechanical, biological or social, it requires
a feedback mechanism to survive.
Your nervous system does some amazing things to fight off infections.
It creates custom anti-bodies to attack foreign microbes.
Custom living cells created through a system of feedback to spot that
there was a problem, analysis of the problem, action on the problem.
This is a life-sustaining feedback 'homeostatic' loop.
[bracket comments are mine]
When Stafford Beer says Cyberstride needed to filter 'homeostatic loops':
* "The Human Use of Human Beings - Cybernetics and Society"
* by Norbert Wiener, 1954, pre-ISBN
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* The process [such as that employed by our nervous system] by which we
* living beings resist the general stream of corruption and decay is
* known as homeostasis.
Stayin' alive, stayin' alive...
So, "sta
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