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Philosophy : Biology : Biestmilch
Cybernetics is a way of thinking
And a way of life
Norbert Wiener says:»Cybernetics is the science of circuits and data transfer in creatures and machines«.
Heinz von Foerster, on the other hand: »That is the most fascinating thing about cybernetics: You ask a few people for a definition - you won´t learn much about cybernetics, but a lot about the defining person. You will learn about his area of expertise, his approach to the world, his passion for playing with metaphors, his enthusiasm for management, his interest for communication and messaging theories«.
Reiterating rules
Circularity
The basis of cybernetic thinking
In the occidental tradition of thinking, the never-ending regress is not permitted. This means that a cat that bites its own tail cannot exist. In cybernetics, this cat does exist.
Circuits
An everyday principle of regulation
They are hidden behind most phenomena of everyday life. Circuits take care that balance is not lost. This applies above all to our organism.
Biestmilch – the lamentations
Creatures of irrepressible diversity
It is more than it appears to be. It is not milk, not medicine. It has been ancient natural remedy for centuries. It was part of our ancestors' wealth of experience for generations, as Biestmilch counted among their indispensable household remedies. We are sort of like the treasure hunters behind the lost treasures.
Biestmilch's paths of discourses
Food of a very special kind
Powerful and enduring it polarizes minds. Some are frenetic fans others are sceptical and even deprecative. Like this tabu and unconditioned love are very closey related.
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Modulations are variations
They only enable perceiving
Most signals in our every day environment such as notes, light, telephone, radio are based on physical phenomenon that spread over a great distance. Only by modulation are they given the property to transfer information to the receiver. For the ever same we become deaf, blind and numb etc. ...
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Everyday modulations ...
Attractor, by Regina Hofer
World of complexity
Unfamiliar thinking
Complex systems are systems that evade simplification and remain multilayered. If we succeed to simplify them accordingly, unfortunately we fail in many cases to restore complexity.
Balanced organism
Not weighing, but regulating
Dynamic equilibrium has nothing in common with weight. Scales weigh, organsims regulate for achieving and maintaining equilibrium. The equilibrium of biology is fluent, like the river that is always the same and yet another.