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Blind control

We speak of blind control when the perception part of the control scheme is absent or grossly inadequate. No feed-back. Examples are numerous. The driver of a car gets asleep. The engine works on and drives the car ... into the ditch.

A less tragic example is a programmable electric oven which executes its program without any feed-back from the cooked food.


Copyright© 1996 Principia Cybernetica - Referencing this page

Author
V. Turchin,

Date
Oct 21, 1996

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