In a message dated 1/15/13 12:26:38 PM, [email protected] writes:
> Cybernetics is applicable when a system being analyzed is involved in a > closed signaling loop; that is, where action by the system generates some > change in its > environment and that change is reflected in that system in some manner > (feedback) that triggers a system change. > It's not clear what notion you have in mind when you say the word 'system'. For example, I could imagine someone wanting to call their philosophy of language a "system". Conceivably, the "application" of a philosophy of language to one's thinking about language would ultimately result in a change in one's philosophy of language. All of which amounts to an extremely meager insight, despite the intimidatingly "profound" terminology used to express it.
