cybernetics [Gr.,=steersman], term coined by American mathematician Norbert
Wiener to refer to the general analysis of
control systems and
communication systems in living organisms and machines. In cybernetics, analogies are drawn between the functioning of the brain and nervous system and the
computer and other electronic systems. The science overlaps the fields of neurophysiology,
information theory, computing machinery, and
automation. See
servomechanism.
See N. Wiener, Cybernetics (rev. ed. 1961) and The Human Use of Human Beings (1967); F. H. Fuchs, The Brain as a Computer (1973).
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