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1 total messages Started by francois.grieu Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:24

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Author: francois.grieu
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:24

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biological or social, it requires
a feedback mechanism to survive.

Your nervous system does some amazing things to fight off infections.

It creates custom anti-bodies to attack foreign microbes.
Custom living cells created through a system of feedback to spot that
there was a problem, analysis of the problem, action on the problem.

This is a life-sustaining feedback 'homeostatic' loop.

[bracket comments are mine]
When Stafford Beer says Cyberstride needed to filter 'homeostatic loops':

*   "The Human Use of Human Beings - 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 d

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