Cybernetics

Besides the electrical engineering theory fo the transmission of messages, there is a larger field which includes not only the study of language but the study of messages as a means of controlling machinery and society, the development of computing machines and other such automata, certain reflections upon psychology and nervous system, and a tentative new theory of scientific method. This larger theory of messages is a probabilistic theory, an intrinsic part of movement that owes it origin to Willard Gibbs - Cybernitics


Its the purpose of Cybernitics to develop a language and techniques that will enable us to attack the problem of control and communication in general, but also to find the proper repertory fo ideas and techniques to classify their particular manifestations under certain concepts. In control and communication we are always fighting nature's tendency to degrade the organized and to destroy the meaningful the tendency, as Gibbs has shown us, for entropy to increas. To live effectively is to live with adequate information. Thus communication and control belong to the essence of man's inner life, even as they belong to his life in society.