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Cybernetics starts where metaphysics ends. It takes for granted the notions of system, process, state and control as the primary elements of models to construct. This is its difference from physics, which takes space, time and matter as the primary concepts. It does not follow that cybernetics may do completely without physical notions and vice cersa: the question is that of the main focus. Boundaries between various provinces of knowledge are blurred by constant lebding and borrowing.


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Author
V. Turchin,

Date
Sep 1991

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