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From: fn@harlqn.UUCP (Phil Knightbridge)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: cybernetics of various forms
Summary: meaning of control
Message-ID: <1519@harlqn.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 88 13:23:40 GMT
Reply-To: fn@uucp (Phil Knightbridge)
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Since CYBERNETICS is the study of communication and control of
living bodies as compared to those of mechanical or electrical
then socio-cybernetics is concerned initially with the model of
society as a living entity and hence comparing its communication
and control with that of an electrical or mechanical system.

Psycho-cybernetics I find a little more interesting to define but
has clearly been included to complement the use of socio-cybernetics
since it must relate to the control and communication of the mind/soul
as a living entity. In examination of the workings of the human being
I would be interested to know where Psyco-cybernetics ends and 
Cybernetics (related to the human being) begins. The fact that someone
somewhere has decided to coin the phrase implies that there is a border
at which the mind and rest of the bodily functions merge. Has this
realy been determined ?

Phil Knightbridge