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An Approach To Cybernetics

@inproceedings{Pask1961AnAT,
  title={An Approach To Cybernetics},
  author={Gordon Pask},
  year={1961}
}
Approach To complete the picture, there is Rashevsky's2G view of evolution. The organism, regarded as a control system, can be mapped on to an image wherein all metrical properties are discarded, but all 'structural' relations preserved. The image will be a graph of the kind we used to depict states, only, in this case, the nodal points represent biological properties such as 'feeding' and 'secretion'. Rashevsky contends that the various graphs which have arisen by evolution can be transformed… 
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The wholeness of a cybernetican
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Systems Philosophy and Cybernetics
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The poet of cybernetics
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An Introduction to Design Cybernetics
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Progress in biocybernetics
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Understanding Complex Systems: What Can the Speaking Lion Tell us?
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A generally applicable solutions, which is based on a “symbol grounding” neural network architecture, are presented and the relation of this approach to the measurement problem in physics is discussed and similarities to existing positions in philosophy are pointed out.
Architecture of Generative Situations
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Origins of the Embryo: Self-organization through cybernetic regulation
Editorial: Cybernetic systems: Fuzzy, Neural and Evolutionary Computing Approaches
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The main objective behind this special issue is to strive towards establishing relationships between Cybernetics and intelligent systems.
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