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| Annotationen:Reflections on Cybernetics/Allfaemdcq | This principle is, indeed, universal. If there is something we would like to create or have, we look for some specific event or action to which experience has tied the desired item as ‘effect’. If we find it, we try to implement its causal function, hoping that it will produce what we wanted. | Sarah Oberbichler | 20 September 2019 17:29:49 | TextAnnotation Schlussfolgerung3 |
| Annotationen:Reflections on Cybernetics/Feqxejmb64 | Sarah Oberbichler | 20 September 2019 17:29:32 | TextAnnotation Prämisse3 | |
| Annotationen:Reflections on Cybernetics/Hwbrfwl7ct | To my mind, this illustrates what is perhaps the most valuable feature of the cybernetical analysis of phenomena in general, and of 2nd-order Cybernetics in particular. It leads us to think in terms, not of single causes and effects, but rather of equilibria between constraints. This helps to avoid the widespread illusion that we could gather “information” concerning a reality supposed to be causing our experience; and it therefore focuses attention on managing in the experiential world we do get to know. | Sarah Oberbichler | 20 September 2019 17:44:05 | TextAnnotation Schlussfolgerung3 |
| Annotationen:Reflections on Cybernetics/Wf4pa99zd7 | The good old thermostat, the favorite example in the early literature of cybernetics, is still a useful explanatory tool. In it a temperature is set as the goal-state the user desires for the room. The thermostat knows nothing of the room or of desirable temperatures. It is designed to eliminate any discrepancy between a set reference value and the feedback it receives from its sensory organ, namely the value indicated by its thermometer. If the sensed value is too low, it switches on the heater, if it is too high, it switches on the cooling system. Employing Gordon Pask’s clever distinction (Pask, 1969, p.23–24): from the user’s point of view, the thermostat has a purpose for, i.e. to maintain a desired temperature, whereas the purpose in the device is to eliminate a difference. | Sarah Oberbichler | 20 September 2019 17:43:16 | TextAnnotation Beispiel3 |
| Annotationen:Reflections on Cybernetics/Za484i9ckl | Sarah Oberbichler | 20 September 2019 17:43:34 | TextAnnotation Prämisse3 |
