Cybernetics still alive

Kybernetika

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 314-327

  Havel, Ivan M ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Autopoiesis; Causal domains; Chaos; Collective phenomena; Connectnism; Cybernetics; Domains of discourse; Downward causation; Emergence; Feedback; General systems; Hierarchies; Metaphors; Scales; Self reference; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349141796     PISSN: 00235954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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