
018 - The Cybernetic Brain, Part 1: Ontological Theatre
General Intellect Unit
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The Differences Between Cybernetics and the Black Box Theory
The modern sciences are mostly concerned with this direct and identifiable causality where A causes B. But the cybernetic ontology is kind of different than that it sees. Causation is this sort of like, forward, forward search, right? The cause is simply whatever happens to happen when it's placed into the environment. This notion of temporality is emergent from the interaction between the object and its environment.
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