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William Ross Ashby

W. Ross Ashby was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things. His first name was not used: he was known as Ross Ashby.

September 6, 1903 - November 15, 1972

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What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.

William Ross Ashby

William Ross Ashby

When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable. — © William Ross Ashby

When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.

William Ross Ashby

William Ross Ashby

A brain can improve till it fits its environment.

William Ross Ashby

William Ross Ashby

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