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Cybernetics

Cybernetics
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-28

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Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the outcomes of actions return as inputs for subsequent actions. It is concerned with general principles that are relevant across multiple contexts, including engineering, ecological, economic, biological, cognitive and social systems and also in practical activities such as designing, lea

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Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the outcomes of actions return as inputs for subsequent actions. It is concerned with gene

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Cybernetics studies the universal laws by which systems self-regulate, communicate, and control through feedback, spanning machines, organisms, and societies. Its Greek root 'kybernetes' originally means 'helmsman'.

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