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cybernetics

noun as in science studying brain function to design analagous mechanical systems

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In electrical engineering there were clear applications for this kind of control theory and cybernetics.

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The first is the stream of thought going back to Ross Ashby known as “management cybernetics,” which Davies clarifies.

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As a student, Harbisson had met Plymouth University cybernetics expert Adam Montandon, who enabled him to "hear" colour using headphones, a webcam and laptop - transforming light waves into sounds.

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Mr. Hsu’s work is subtler, with flickers of surrealism, psychedelia and cybernetics.

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But in so doing, all the sweeping assumptions underlying cybernetics are ignored, particularly the genesis of its development as a mathematical architecture of warfare and defense.

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