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Fundamentals
This is the core of cybernetic theory and practice, the essentially transdiciplinary from which all the specialist fields grow and feed back.
This is an essential field of enquiry and learning.
Think of context and feedback and variety, of markers and cues and signs, of navigation and outcome…
Design
Almost all cybernetic activity that is not pure theory is also design work, incldujgn the design of scientific method, of theory, of its communication.
But there are also core fields recognised as belonging to design such as…
Architecture and interior design
Business design
Apps, products, services and materials design — R&D, innovation
Designing social futures and what is needed for them
Methods design, such as Agile and Lean
Social planning and social architecture
Ethical aspects of design.
For the specialist there is a long and nuanced list. Tags can be used to mark these.
Knowing
Philosophy and history of science, and scientific paradigms and cybernetics as revolutionary or stable social processes
Core tools and concepts of cybernetics and their implications, including Ternary Theory, Directiveness, Context, Feedback, Cues and Signals, and more
Scientific Method & Philosophy of Science
Cross Discipline/Trans-Discipline/Integration as practice
Second, recursive, reflexive, and observer-dependent orders of science and cybernetics; observation and interpretation, constructivism
Noetic Sciences — a very long list related to what and how we know, how we understand mind, and how we work with it… Consider just these…
Appearances
Artificial intelligence as a concept and paradigm
Autonomy and freedom, agency
Brain, nervous system, and brain sciences
Cognition and sensory perception
Cognition
Cognitive biases, frames, and paradigms
Communication — in nature, humans, machines
Concepts and ideas and what they are or do
Consciousness studies
Constructivism, idealism
Context theory
Cross discipline/trans discipline/integration as practice
Cybernetic influence on scientific paradigms
Determinism
Directiveness and autonomy
Double bind and other pathologies
Embodied intelligence
Emotion (affect, feelings) and its effects and intelligence
Epistemology and Ontology
Neuroscience and Psychological Theories…
Matter
Physics and chemistry especially work with material substances and the forces and organization of these, but they play a role in many fields. But from the design of research to the construction of things out of these materials and substances for a purpose, cybernetics can and does play a useful role. It dances with
Physical and Chemical Organization
Catalysis and Autocatalysis
Organic products, eg protein.
Physico-Chemical Self Organization
Anatomy and the physiome
Global Warming
Gaia
Life
All Life Sciences
Formative principles of life and ecology, eg Context and Feedback, Persistence and Change, Individuation and Speciation.
Systems Biology & Morphology, inc genome and physionome studies
Autopoiesis
Ethology
Perceptual Control Theory (PCT)
Veterinary Science
Ecology and Ecosystems
Evolution
Machine
Machine Cybernetics and a few more…
Robotics
AI software
Autonomous vehicles, autopilots…
Assistive tech, eg for surgery
Designing machine systems, e.g. AI, IoT, software, and other smart technologies
Ethical and functional consequences
Homeostatic devices and signal systems
Smart software systems (feedback and controls)
Software systems and coding practices
The internet
Semantic web and advanced coding
People
Sociology and Anthropology
Sociology and social structuration, and its concepts, eg recursive situations, context, reflexive monitoring of the flux of encounters, speech acts, Erving Goffman face-to-face social interaction as a PCT theorist…
Social Ecology/social autopoiesis
Economics, macro and micro, Nudge, behavioural economics
Integrated Sociology: General theory, Political Theory; Economic Theory, Cultural Theory
Social anthropology
History
Human Synthesis & Meta Levels, eg
Domain Analysis & Transdisciplinary Methods
Therapeutics (inc Psychotherapy, PCT Theory of Levels, Medical Science)
Social Planning
Aid and development
Crisis Solutions ( Global Warming, Degradation, Political Breakdown, Etc)
Change Design
Governance and the law
Education & training
Design thinking and practices
Architecture
Social planning and social architecture
Product design
Systems
How important has systemic thinking become!
Cybernetics is routinely equated with the systems sciences, but despite its affinities with all of them, it has a particular orientation that marks a distinction. Yet many problems are resolved when a systems discipline is united with a cybernetic.
Systems science disciplines
See the introduction to consider this further and perhaps write an article.
Management
Management is cybernetic. So is Government and its political practices. Cybernetics dances with all the following…
Management Theory, Identity, Culture, Business Models
Organization theory, structure and design
Policy formation and control, Governance, steering tools
Strategy, research, planning, decision making, adaptation
Innovation, problem solving, design and execution of change
Administration and unit/team organization
Marketing, Sales, Brand, Pricing, value propositions and offerings
Financial systems
Production systems
Value streams, processes, circular economy, ecosystem
Cybernetic tools, including VSM
Extended corporate machine intelligences.
See also https://cybsoc.org/?page_id=1539
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