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From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Congress on Cybernetics and Systems
Keywords: psychocybernetics, sociocybernetics
Message-ID: <250@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 88 03:43:22 GMT
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In article <2412@cs.Buffalo.EDU> lammens@sunybcs.UUCP (Johan Lammens) writes:

>What on earth is psychocybernetics and sociocybernetics?

Psycho-: prefix, referring to that internal domain of reality recognized by
	the science of psychology.

Socio-: prefix, referring to that portion of the external reality pertaining
	to human relationships which has been individually mapped by each one
	of us into the aforementioned internal domain.

Cybernetics : the science of decision-making.

Psychocybernetics : The study of one's internal decision-making process(es),
	usually for the purposes of self-analysis and/or self-improvement.

Sociocybernetics : The study of one's society and its approach to making and
implementing decisions, usually for similar purposes.

>JL.

-- richard