Cybernetics and Development

Cybernetics and Development
ISBN-10
0080114318
ISBN-13
9780080114316
Pages
188
Language
English
Published
1966
Publisher
New York
Author
Michael J. Apter

Description

Cybernetics and Development deals with the ways in which growing and developing biological systems control themselves during development. It is a preliminary attempt to apply some of the insights and techniques of cybernetics to the problem of understanding such development and its control. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of cybernetics and its methods. Separate chapters cover the use of cybernetics in the field of biological development; previous work in the area of cybernetics related to automata theory; and the application of information theory to development. Subsequent c.