Steps to a Cybernetics of Autonomy

Francisco Varela

A chapter in Power, Autonomy, Utopia, 1986, pp 117-122 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the context of this panel on some fundamental guidelines for cybernetics and systems theory I would like to present today a very specific point of view: that of a biologist. I came upon these issues because I was involved in studying things like nervous systems or immune systems. In cybernetics and systems theory, important notions have been shaped by empirical research dealing with complex biological systems. It is well known to all of you that in the pioneering days — in the 40ies and the 50ies — biology played a fundamental role in asking the questions that then led to the full development of these disciplines.

Keywords: System Theory; Autonomous System; Turing Machine; Operational Closure; Complex Biological System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-2225-2_8

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