Two Introductions to Cybernetics
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Biocybernetics

The branch of cybernetics concerned with modelling biological systems, centred on the nerve cell and on homeostasis.


In John F. Young, Cybernetics (1969)
Ch. 1–5 · the biological chapters

Young's first third — nervous system, reflexes, brain, EEG, memory — is in effect a biocybernetics, the living ground the rest of the book builds machines against.

In F. H. George, Cybernetics (1971)
Ch. 9 · Biocybernetics

George defines it directly as the branch that models biological systems, advocating a cautious reductionist programme from behaviour to neurology to biochemistry.


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Neuron (nerve cell)Homeostasis

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