Kybernetes: Volume 20 Issue 6

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics

The World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) is a federation of national associations and institutions devoted to systems or cybernetics. It was founded in 1969 by…

Reflections of a Cybernetician on the Practice of Planning

Stafford Beer

The author gives his reflections as a cybernetician on the practice of planning in a presentation directed at a professional audience of planners.

Perception, Memorisation and Multidimensional Time

Robert Vallée

A model is presented of multidimen‐sional perception and memorisation. It is applied to the perception and memorisation of time and then a multidimensional time is proposed…

Philosophy, Semantics and Cybernetics

Frank George

The background and origins of Cybernetics are viewed from a philosophical standpoint, with special emphasis on semantics. Artificial Intelligence is regarded as a central aspect…

Is Neurocybernetics to be Believed?

Edmond Nicolau

The challenge of explaining all neural and even psychic phenomena with the aid of cybernetics concepts is discussed. The theories concerning the nature of the human brain's…

New Resources and Wider Horizons for Cybernetics

C. Musès

Some new and powerful resources for cybernetics and system theory are explored, stemming from number theory, chronotopology, and the cybernetics of history — a field previously…

Continuity and Artificial Intelligence

Alex M. Andrew

The traditional approach to AI is limited because it fails to exploit continuity. The reliance on discrete logic has allowed the rapid initial advance of the subject, but…

Cybernetics and Social Science: Theories and Research in Sociocybernetics

Felix Geyer, Johannes van der Zouwen

In studying the relationship between Cybernetics and Social Science, theories and research in Sociocyber‐netics are examined. The focus is on researchers who apply Cybernetics to…