Principal peculiarities of cybernetic systems: a negentropic and evolutionary approach

Abstract

Describes a functional‐structural scheme of cybernetic or control systems. Analyses, from the evolutionary point of view, some fundamental problems of evolutionary cybernetics (EC) or Evolutionary Cybernetic Systems Theory (ECST). Discusses Norbert Wiener’s cardinal idea that information is a measure of order in contrast with entropy (of thermodynamics) as a measure of disorder, and that, therefore, control, communication and other phenomena of informational nature are means, ways, forms, methods and manifestations of cybernetic systems’ struggle against their (internal) physical entropy, this peculiar character of such systems being expressed in their principal structures and functions.

Citation

Jdanko, A.V. (1995), "Principal peculiarities of cybernetic systems: a negentropic and evolutionary approach", Kybernetes, Vol. 24 No. 4, pp. 84-97. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684929510089376