What is Cybernetics?

Different definitions of cybernetics according to its evolution from the art of the pilot in Greece to a new scientific paradigm that has changed the world significantly. Its famous fathers include Norbert Wiener, Gregory Bateson, Warren McCulloch, John Von Neuman, Ross Ashby, Stafford Beer, Heinz Von Foerster and others. Cybernetics, the science of control and communications in 1948, has been called the largest portion of the apple of knowledge.

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[y mizzi]

very helpful video, thanks for uploading. BUT what is cybernetics exactly? As in, is it a machine or more like any process any machine may have to go through?

[Javier Livas]

Cybernetics is the science that studies how control works.

[AllKillA]

Oh dude... Why is there no explanation of cybernetics you can understand....

[Javier Livas]

: Dear friend: Cybernetics is about communications and control. It is also about highly complex or dynamic systems. information is important because connections among the parts of a system make these parts behave in a certain manner. It is of course very general because it covers many things, especially those that show some kind of purpose. I do not know how to say it any simpler.

[Javier Livas]

Pretty fine by me. But who is "we"? Not very many I presume.

[OutaSynch]

I especially liked the nude photo at 3:00. What a way to make a dry subject more appealing. :-)

[Dee Hustler]

@ 2:56 I also became "very rigorous"

[R3dPills]

The Matrix. The very system we live in.

[Flyer Arround]

@JAVIERLIVAS Are you a Science expert or somethink like that. What you Write is very interssting. I live in Germany. It would interst me if you can locate and deactivate a human brain Chip. Is this possible and dangerouse for the human I think in the futher is is also a important Space to protect human againth mind abuse.

[Belowtheblade]

this is very interesting, but i was under the impression that cybernetics involved robotic augmentation on the human body, is this wrong?

[cipnr korvo]

Explained to you by the Terminator:

I am a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.

[Martin Slow]

it does, it may not be called cybernetics tho. If you study any systems of regulation, examples: cruise controll in a car, autopilot in a ship/plane or any other system that is made to control anything you are usually using cybernetics.

[R0b0mammal]

Very informative, but his monotone voice made it verrry difficult to focus on what he was saying :S

[Enysvar]

I study information science but I really want to get into cybernetics! but it doesnt exist in my country...