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Cybernetics is NOT the banana.
If you desire to see, learn how to act.
Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.
Act always so as to increase the number of choices
The environment as we perceive it is our invention.
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.
Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.
Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.