Category Archives: Cybernetics

Forgetfulness Of Purpose • 5

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Recall the game between R and D determined by the following data. Here is Ashby’s analysis of how it plays out. Examination of the table soon shows that with this particular table R can win always.  Whatever value D selects … Continue reading →

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Forgetfulness Of Purpose • 4

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Ashby now invites us to consider a series of games, beginning as follows. 11/3.   Play and outcome.  Let us therefore forget all about regulation and simply suppose that we are watching two players, R and D, who are engaged in … Continue reading →

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Forgetfulness Of Purpose • 3

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Here is the first part of Ashby’s setup for the schematic example I had in mind. Requisite Variety 11/1.   In the previous chapter we considered regulation from the biological point of view, taking it as something sufficiently well understood.  … Continue reading →

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Forgetfulness Of Purpose • 2

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

I had planned to get down to brass tacks as quickly as possible, with an object example from Ashby’s Cybernetics that made an impression on me at an early stage in my thinking about intelligent systems.  But while I was … Continue reading →

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Forgetfulness Of Purpose • 1

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Naturally I had purposes and reflected on my purposes for as long as I can remember but I don’t think I thought about the concept of purpose in a systematic way until I began taking courses on cybernetics and systems … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • ℞

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

THE SOCIAL COMPACT If then we discard from the social compact what is not of its essence, we shall find that it reduces itself to the following terms: “Each of us puts his person and all his power in common … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 7

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Diane Ravitch • Help the ACLU Sue the State of Nevada to Stop Vouchers Vouchers are a tool for injecting a viral species of market dynamics — the dynamics of private individuals competing in a zero-sum game for individual … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 6

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Diane Ravitch • Help the ACLU Sue the State of Nevada to Stop Vouchers Until very recently, beginning with the perverse promotion of corporate curricula, state and federal governments have never had “the power to require children to receive … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 5

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Diane Ravitch • Help the ACLU Sue the State of Nevada to Stop Vouchers Religion is a private business. If religious establishments wish to remain free of accountability to the government of the people as a whole — just … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 4

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Diane Ravitch • Why Douglas County, Colorado, Vouchers Were Ruled Unconstitutional Freedom of religion depends on the separation of church and state. That’s what they taught us back in the last millennium, even in Texas, maybe even especially in … Continue reading →

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