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- Cybernetics and Society"
*   by Norbert Wiener, 1954, pre-ISBN
*   
*   The process [such as that employed by our nervous system] by which we
*   living beings resist the general stream of corruption and decay is
*   known as homeostasis.

Stayin' alive, stayin' alive...

So, "statistical filtration for all homeostatic loops" means one is checking
on the health of the monitored system.

The cybernetician uses the same language for feedback of weapons systems
(picking out a submarine from the background noise of the ocean) as they
do for describing human life, as they do for the political organization
of a country.

Like I said, an awesome scope.

Norbert Wiener even came up with a physics-based
description of how life is formed by information.

Check it out. Hang in there too, it's worth it.

*   "Platform for Change", by Stafford Beer, 1978, ISBN 0 471 06189 1
*   
*   The term 'entropy' began life as a subtle measure of energy flow.
*   
*   When something hotter is systemically bound to something cooler, the
*   greater energy of the hotter stuff migrates---inexorably migrates---
*   into the cooler stuff. This is one manifestation of the Second Law of
*   Thermodynamics, which everyone of education has encountered.
*
*   This is sometimes referred to as 'the universe is running down'.

Okay, 'entropy', yeah I remember that kinda. Keep going:

Our solar system is a lot of matter that is NOT sitting in a situation of
entropy: the sun is radiating heat at the planets. Instead of just matter
smoothing out to a common low-energy state, a burning fireball is at work.

Cybernetics states that under conditions
like this, matter does something special.

*   "Platform for Change", by Staffor


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