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Evolutionary Cybernetics

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Humanities Research Institute, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
Location
Russell Room 2049 Natural History Building
Date
Oct 25, 2023   3:00 - 5:00 pm  
Contact
Brian Jefferson
E-Mail
bjjeffer@illinois.edu
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Cybernetics and biology share a common focus on the regulation, coordination, and guidance of decentralized systems. Neither, however, can answer how a non-anticipatory process – evolution – produces anticipatory beings. In this month's Critical Cybernetics workshop, Professor Charles Roseman explores this dialectic of controllability and uncontrollability in the evolutionary mechanism.                                                           

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