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Cybernetics Defined by Norbert Wiener as the science of control and
communication in the animal and the machine, Cybernetics draws on the engineerization of the body seen as a mixture of complex adaptive mechanisms maintaining the bodily states constant,
homeostasis, and enabling the evolutive process, negentropy, in contrast to the entropic decay. The positions embraced by the Cyberneticians leads back to the work of
Walter Cannon (1926) and before that, to the scientific study of the steam engine leading to thermodynamics (1824 Sadi Carnot ) and control theory (1867 James Clerk Maxwell): the theory of the feedbak loop.
Important polymaths, along with their most influential leaders Warren S. McCulloch and Norbert Wiener, deveveloped the viable idea of building life out of structure instead of substance, breaking the barriers between human and non-human and opening up an horizon of machinic flows-distribution producing life from human design. Other directions seems to emphasize the use of cybernetic life to enhance human existence itself and turning toward a paradigm which claims the actuality of intelligence amplification.
If these theories treat occultists and mystical thematics or not, is not yet clear as the many influences that made Cybernetics possible blurs the distinction between science and fiction. Furthermore, despite the possible evidences claiming the opposite, the language used by cyberneticians is completely coherent with their scientifical aims leaking echoes of mysticism and religious attitudes only in the various new age commentaries.
Following a selection of text of McCulloch and Wiener: