What is cybernetics? Science, expanding the boundaries of the possible

Some of the sciences that arose in the twentieth century, such as synergetics and torsiology, raise justifiable doubts. But cybernetics has become a worthy child of the century, although it suffers from a lack of recognition - too general and abstract, causing many difficulties for researchers. It is technical cybernetics that gives hope to futurists. All breathtaking projects (like artificial intelligence) belong to scientists, keen on this science. So what is cybernetics?

First of all, this is the field of research on the border of several sciences. She deals with theoretical aspects of managing complex systems, their limitations and capabilities. In this case, all objects can be quite complex - cognitive, social, biological, physical or simple mechanical systems. But using complex science for primitive structures is like nailing a nail with a microscope.

What is cybernetics in terms of everyday life? Surely everyone has heard about the concept of "feedback". This means that the system is affected, conditionally speaking, by the consequences of its decisions. That is, it is a kind of rational being. And many go further, and the Lord God himself is called a supersystem, and his opponent Satan is an antisystem. That is, practical applications for cybernetics mass-up to systemic religious studies.

What is cybernetics, what is it used for? Widely used by her experienced and intelligent teachers to model the learning process and adaptation. A lot of cybernetics can be given to sociologists when examining, for example, the question of social control. However, there are not many people who simultaneously understand sociology and cybernetics, which explains the modern helplessness and descriptiveness of this science. But engineers and biologists successfully use the methods of cybernetics in their studies - and achieve impressive results.

The founder of cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, called it "the scientific basis for communication and control in artificial and living systems." Modern science includes logical modeling, electrical engineering systemsology, evolutionary neurobiology and the science of the human psyche (socionics for example). As you can see, the range of knowledge has greatly expanded and includes a lot of new.

What is the cybernetics of information technology? This is the creation of development templates, the wildest dreams of robotics, the scientific decision-making system for the computer, mathematical modeling (cellular automata), information stimulation.

In biology under the influence of cybernetics, such areas as bionics, research and attempts to create self-reproducing systems, system biology, investigating the properties of tissues and organs, not derived from existing structural features, have developed. In short, the field of cybernetics science is quite wide and opening the boundaries for future fundamental research. She has many hopes for her - and science justifies them, only researchers are not enough.