Elementary cybernetic
Par Eric Collias le jeudi 10 juin 2010, 09:53 - ecosophe - Lien permanent
blog d'Éric Collias, professionnel en écologie et sciences humaines appliquées à l'aménagement, intervenant an sein du master Espaces Ruraux et PériUrbanisation (ERPUR) de l'UFR Sciences de la Vie et de l'Environnement de l'Université de Rennes 1
Par Eric Collias le jeudi 10 juin 2010, 09:53 - ecosophe - Lien permanent
Consider a tree and a man and an axe. We observe that the axe flies through the air and makes certain sorts of gashes in a pre-existing cut in the side of the tree. If now we want to explain this set of phenomena, we shall be concerned with differences in the cut face of the tree, differences in the retina of the man, differences in his central nervous system, differences in his efferent neural messages, differences in the behavior of his muscles, differences in how the axe flies, to the differences which the axe then makes on the face of the tree. Our explanation (for certain purposes) will go round and round that circuit. In principle, if you want to explain or understand anything in human behavior, you are always dealing with total circuits, completed circuits. This is the elementary cybernetic thought.
Gregory Bateson, Steps to an ecology of mind
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