ThomasDec 7, 2024

#RobertRosen wrote the text below 1974 in a paper reprinted in part in Anticipatory Systems. The following analysis of 1st order #cybernetics especially as applied to the regulation of an economic system S by means of a model M of S and an effector system E (designed to modify the trajectory of states of S, as modeled in M) towards, or away from, predicted future states. It soon becomes very clear how convoluted and hazardous even the most simple cybernetic approach is.

My note: #NeoRationalism

Ralph BrookerFeb 20, 2023
#Enlightenment #neorationalism (I’d respectfully include #ChristopherHitchens here and #RichardDawkins) sometimes, perhaps typically, confuse belief-in-x (eg. ‘I believe the wafer is the flesh of Christ’) with a non-credal attitude more in line with a default-life pattern: the only alternative to not sleeping or not working (some folkloric music provides relief). Church attendance isn’t about #epistemology when you’re a #subsistence #farmer. And nor is it about high brow #theology. #rural