Shimeji Simulation - Vol. 4 Ch. 40 - Masic
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More about feedback loops:
In 1948 Norbert Wiener published his most famous work; a book titled Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. It was this book that popularized the term cybernetics to refer to the idea of feedback processes, and their parallel relationship to biological and technological systems.
Feedback processes are those that take for their input the observable output of their previous iteration. For example, a thermostat will take as its feedback the current roomt temperature, and adjust it accordingly so it reaches a set point. If its too cold, it will emit heat, if its hot, it will emit cold.
Cybernetics has went on to create innovation and controversy in everything from economics to neuroscience, and, recently popular, articial intelligence. But much of these systems share that the rules to process feedback are static through its lifetime. What if that could change?
Second order cybernetics arose as a response, and with that, the cybernetician themselves became part of the cybernetic systems they commanded.
Shimeji correctly inferred that the limitation of the revolution Big Sis brought about was that people could only change their environment. This meant people were safe from changing each other too much, as they were mere observers of the changes around them. However, with the newest discovery by Big Sis, people would now be affected by the feedback process too, they were now part of the system.
Second order cybernetics brought to the table not only new ways to think about systems. It brought the existential question of how much of reality is real? We normally think that reality is what is out there, but could we, as observers of reality, be actually shaping reality? Can our common conception of reality actually change us too?
Radical constructivism would be born to answer this epistemological question, although it would soon fade into the obscurity of academic circles.
In 1948 Norbert Wiener published his most famous work; a book titled Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. It was this book that popularized the term cybernetics to refer to the idea of feedback processes, and their parallel relationship to biological and technological systems.
Feedback processes are those that take for their input the observable output of their previous iteration. For example, a thermostat will take as its feedback the current roomt temperature, and adjust it accordingly so it reaches a set point. If its too cold, it will emit heat, if its hot, it will emit cold.
Cybernetics has went on to create innovation and controversy in everything from economics to neuroscience, and, recently popular, articial intelligence. But much of these systems share that the rules to process feedback are static through its lifetime. What if that could change?
Second order cybernetics arose as a response, and with that, the cybernetician themselves became part of the cybernetic systems they commanded.
Shimeji correctly inferred that the limitation of the revolution Big Sis brought about was that people could only change their environment. This meant people were safe from changing each other too much, as they were mere observers of the changes around them. However, with the newest discovery by Big Sis, people would now be affected by the feedback process too, they were now part of the system.
Second order cybernetics brought to the table not only new ways to think about systems. It brought the existential question of how much of reality is real? We normally think that reality is what is out there, but could we, as observers of reality, be actually shaping reality? Can our common conception of reality actually change us too?
Radical constructivism would be born to answer this epistemological question, although it would soon fade into the obscurity of academic circles.
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I wonder if the song that played was the same as the one in the underground area from chapter 38. It might be a fundamental structure at the bottom of the (simulated) human psyche that could be manipulated after being resurfaced in front of a large group of people.
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I too hope the teacher gets fired 
I knew that sister leaving her cave could only spell disaster
I knew that sister leaving her cave could only spell disaster
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I don't quite get it, but I think it's really cool
