The Second Cybernetics

Maruyama, M. (1963). The Second Cybernetics: Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Processes. American Scientist, 51(2), 164-179.

Type

Journal article

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Primary research

Year

1963

Link

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27838689

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systems_cybernetics

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• Feedback
  • Misidentifying the sign — or missing a positive-feedback pathway hiding inside what is nominally a negative-feedback system — changes predicted behavior from bounded to runaway

    This sourceDraws the distinction between deviation-counteracting (negative, mutual-negative-feedback) and deviation-amplifying (positive, mutual-positive-feedback) loops, naming the positive-feedback pathways behind bubbles, vicious circles, and morphogenesis.

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