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Although cybernetics is not primarily a philosophy, it implies philosophical assumptions: mechanistic materialism modified by feedback mechanisms enabling interactions between dynamic systems. It lacks ability to explain organic wholes. Systems theorists should adopt organicism, a philosophy conceiving systems, including numbers, as organic wholes.
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Bahm, A.J. (1978). Cybernetics as a Systems Philosophy. In: Rose, J. (eds) Current Topics in Cybernetics and Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93104-8_191
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