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This paper spells out differences and similarities between the older or classical cybernetics and the recent and very different cybernetics which has been produced as a product of philosophical and scientific evolution. It is argued that considerations such as modal logics (encompassing self and other reference for imperatives, deontic forms and so on) and truth valuations of coherence and distinction are already giving rise to further fundamental developments, some of which are indicated.
This introduction was first published, though in a reduced form, in Communication & Cognition, vol. 23, nos. 2–3: The Old and New in Cybernetic Fashions.
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Pask, G. (1992). Introduction Different Kinds of Cybernetics. In: van de Vijver, G. (eds) New Perspectives on Cybernetics. Synthese Library, vol 220. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8062-5_1
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