CYBERNETICS AND GENERAL SYSTEMS—A UNITARY SCIENCE?

Abstract

Cybernetics is unique in that it is the only calculus that is applicable to both material and immaterial systems. Provided only that two elements of a system can be linked by feedback, then that system may be examined in terms of cybernetics. Cybernetics is of universal validity. It is the method of choice for the general analysis of any system. Many instances are given in support of this. In every case, the critical step was the discovery of two processes that were related by feedback. As a scientific method for the unifying of all General Systems, Cybernetics has no equal.

Citation

STANLEY‐JONES, D. (1979), "CYBERNETICS AND GENERAL SYSTEMS—A UNITARY SCIENCE?", Kybernetes, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 33-37. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005502