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W. Ross Ashby a sick organism that is, as a human patient, of fearful complexity” (Ashby WR. An introduction to cybernetics. Chapman & Hall, London, 1956, p vii). The pursuit of this goal led him to advance the field of cybernetics very significantly. His influence on the field, both in his own time and to the present day, has been considerable.

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Book 2020Latest editiononal issues as interconnected wholes rather than separating them into parts and looking at each in isolation. This book presents a biographical history of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. ..Systems Thinkers. discusses each thinker’s key contributions,

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Gregory Batesonem. He began only late in life to attempt to synthesise his work, and eventually described his intellectual journey as: “from biology at the beginning, into anthropology, into systems of ideas, pathologies of systems of ideas, and then to systems of ideas which are how we all try and live together –

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Norbert Wienermind and personal warmth, but also for his absent-mindedness, low self-esteem, and severe mood-swings. He was born in midwestern USA (Missouri) in 1894 to a Jewish family – his father had emigrated from Russia and his mother from Germany. Although the family were descended from the great twelfth cen

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