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to the
*   workers' committees in every factory.
*   
*   How could this be done?
*   
*   The basic idea was that crucial indices of performance in every plant
*   should be transmitted daily to the computers, where they would be
*   processed and examined for any kind of important signal that they
*   contained. If there was any sort of warning implied by these data,
*   then an alerting signal would be sent back to the managers of the
*   plant concerned.

What are 'arousal filter' and 'homeostatic loops'?


The scope of Cybernetics is, in a word, awesome.

A cyberneticist can talk from atoms to cells to nervous systems, to
management of a company, country, world, solar system.

Whether an organism is mechanical, 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 s