Categories: Biology stubs | Cybernetics Cybernetics is a theory of the communication and control of regulatory feedback. ... Medical Cybernetics covers an emerging working program for the application of systems- and communications-theory, connectionism and decision theory on biomedical research and health related questions. ... Systems biology is an academic field that seeks to integrate high-throughput biological studies to understand how biological systems function. ... Cybernetics is a theory of the communication and control of regulatory feedback. ... In mathematics, a measure-preserving transformation T on a probability space is said to be ergodic if the only measurable sets invariant under T have measure 0 or 1. ... Gotthard Gunthers term for Subjectivity. ... The introduction of this article does not provide enough context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. ... Catastrophe theory is a branch of mathematics that deals with dynamical systems and was originated with the work of the French mathematician René Thom in the 1960s. ... Connectionism is an approach in the fields of cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology and philosophy of mind. ... In engineering and mathematics, control theory deals with the behaviour of dynamical systems over time. ... Decision theory is an interdisciplinary area of study, related to and of interest to practitioners in mathematics, statistics, economics, philosophy, management and psychology. ... Information theory is a branch of the mathematical theory of probability and mathematical statistics that quantifies the concept of information. ... Semiotics is the study of signs, both individually and grouped in sign systems, and includes the study of how meaning is transmitted and understood. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Systems theory or systemics is an interdisciplinary field which studies relationships of systems as a whole. ... Biomedical cybernetics deals with investigating signal processing, decision making and control structures in living organisms. ... Biorobotics is a term that loosely covers the fields of cybernetics, bionics and even genetic engineering as a collective study. ... It has been suggested that neuro cybernetics be merged into this article or section. ... Homeostasis or homoeostasis is the property of an open system, especially living organisms, to regulate its internal environment so as to maintain a stable condition, by means of multiple dynamic equilibrium adjustments controlled by interrelated regulation mechanisms. ... Medical Cybernetics covers an emerging working program for the application of systems- and communications-theory, connectionism and decision theory on biomedical research and health related questions. ... // Word explanation Neuro cybernetics is a compound word of neuro, regarding to the common biological way to convey information within a organism by means of nerves, and cybernetics - the science of communication and automatic control systems in relation to both machines and living beings. ... Sociocybernetics is an independent chapter of science in sociology based upon the General Systems Theory and Cybernetics. ... William Ross Ashby (September 6, 1903, London, England - November 15, 1972) was a British psychiatrist and a pioneer in the study of complex systems. ... Claude Bernard Claude Bernard (July 12, 1813 - February 10, 1878) was a French physiologist. ... Valentin Braitenberg is a cyberneticist and former director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany. ... Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy (September 19, 1901, Vienna, Austria - June 12, 1972, New York, USA) was a biologist who was a founder of general systems theory. ... Heinz von Foerster (November 13, 1911 - October 2, 2002) was a scientist combining physics and philosophy. ... Jay Wright Forrester (born 14 July 1918 Climax, Nebraska) is an American pioneer of computer engineering. ... A philosopher and proponent of radical constructivism. ... Francis Heylighen is a research professor at the Free University of Brussels as well as the director of the transdisciplinary research group on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition. ... Stuart Alan Kauffman (born September 28, 1939), originally trained as a physician, is a biologist and complex systems researcher, and is most widely known for his promotion of self-organization as a factor that is at least as important as Darwinian natural selection in producing the complexity of biological systems... Niklas Luhmann (December 8, 1927 - November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, administration expert, and social systems theorist, as well as the founder of the sociological systems theory. ... Warren McCulloch (November 16, 1899 - September 24, 1969) was an American neurophysiologist and cybernetician. ... Humberto Maturana (born 1928 in Santiago) is a Chilean biologist and philosopher. ... Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902, Colorado Springs, USA - May 8, 1979, Munich, Germany) was the best-known sociologist in the United States, and one of the best-known in the world for many years. ... Walter Pitts (1923? - 1969) was a logician who worked in the field of cognitive psychology. ... Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (January 17, 1881–October 24, British social anthropologist who developed the theory of Structural Functionalism, a framework that describes basic concepts relating to the social structure of primitive civilizations. ... Valentin Turchin is a cybernetician and computer scientist, who first developed the programming language REFAL, the theory of metasystem transitions and the notion of supercompilation. ... Francisco Varela (September 7, 1946, Santiago - May 28, 2001, Paris) was a Chilean biologist and philosopher, who, together with Humberto Maturana, is most well-known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology. ... Prof. ... Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 - March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician, known as the founder of cybernetics. ...