Cybernetics is likely to reveal a great number of interesting and suggestive parallelisms between machine and brain and society. And it can provide the common language by which discoveries in one branch can readily be made use of in the others... [There are] two peculiar scientific virtues of cybernetics that are worth explicit mention. One is that it offers a single vocabulary and a single set of concepts suitable for representing the most diverse types of system... The second peculiar virtue of cybernetics is that it offers a method for the scientific treatment of the system in which complexity is outstanding and too important to be ignored. Such systems are, as we well know, only too common in the biological world!


p. 4-5 - An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956) - Part I: Mechanism

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Cybernetics is likely to reveal a great number of interesting and suggestive parallelisms between machine and brain and society. And it can provide...

Cybernetics is likely to reveal a great number of interesting and suggestive parallelisms between machine and brain and society. And it can provide...

Cybernetics is likely to reveal a great number of interesting and suggestive parallelisms between machine and brain and society. And it can provide...

Cybernetics is likely to reveal a great number of interesting and suggestive parallelisms between machine and brain and society. And it can provide...