Two Introductions to Cybernetics
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Foundations

Communication

The transmission of signals between parts of a system or between systems — the second subject cybernetics unifies with control.


In John F. Young, Cybernetics (1969)
Ch. 9 · Special-Purpose Machines

Young treats communication concretely through real devices — automatic Morse-code translators and code converters — noting how they relied on the uniform timing of machine-sent signals.

In F. H. George, Cybernetics (1971)
Ch. 7 · Information Theory

George generalises communication into the source–channel–destination model and argues it applies to any medium, including ordinary conversation.


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Cybernetics

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Information theory

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