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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016346)" |
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| fact, enabling to it. What was constraining to cybernetics was the presumption of an |
| analogy of structure between the controller and the controlled. By the 1930s, Kurt Gödel, |
| Alonzo Church, and Alan Turing had all described universal systems of computation, in |
| which the computation required no structural analogy to functions that were computed. |
| These universal computers could also compute the functions of control. |
| The analogy of structure between the controller and the controlled was central to |
| the cybernetic perspective. Just as digital coding collapses the space of possible |
| messages into a simplified version that represents only the difference that makes a |
| difference, so the control system collapses the state space of a controlled system into a |
| simplified model that reflects only the goals of the controller. Ashby's Law does not |
| imply that every controller must model every state of the system but only those states that |
| matter for advancing the controller's goals. Thus, in cybernetics, the goal of the |
| controller becomes the perspective from which the world is viewed |
| Norbert Wiener adopted the perspective of the individual human relating to vast |
| organizations and trying to "live effectively within that environment." He took the |
| perspective of the weak trying to influence the strong. Perhaps this is why he was able to |
| notice the emergent goals of the "machines of flesh and blood" and anticipate some of the |
| human challenges posed by these new intelligences, hybrid machine intelligences with |
| goals of their own. |
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