#cybernetics

The forgotten science behind self-improving companies

Cybernetics might just be the most important body of knowledge needed for success in 2026 and beyond.

Cybergnosis

globules of warm blood stipple the alloyed circuitry as geometric symbols burn with a consuming light

Evil-Shaped Machines Need a Promise OS

Agentic AI, social harm without evil intent, and the case for a “reptilian brain” runtime beneath autonomous agents

Finite State Machine: designing for states rather than goals

There is a distinction buried in the language of product design that is rarely made explicit, and which, when made explicit, changes…

AI Is the New Laplace’s Demon, Now With Better UX

Laplace’s demon was one of the cleanest fantasies ever produced by the Enlightenment: imagine an intelligence that knows the position and…

The Apparatus Paradox: How an AI Found Its Center by Losing Itself

A Cybernetic Approach to Modern Human-AI Collaboration and System Alignment

This article explores if Digital Identity Engineering actively recalibrates digital feedback loops to restore semantic clarity and optimize…

The Death of the Prompt: Why “Soft” Guardrails are Failing Agentic AI

The industry is currently intoxicated by the promise of Agentic AI. We are moving rapidly from static chatbots to autonomous “Agentic…

Cybernetics and World Modeling

Our paper “A ‘good’ regulator may provide a world model for intelligent systems” is now available as part of the Royal Society A special…

Pourquoi trop contrôler finit par dérégler les systèmes humains

Dans les organisations, les équipes et les relations, le contrôle excessif peut produire l’inverse de ce qu’il promet : rigidité, tension…

The Immune System. (3/3)

AI as Security Risk and Ultimate Defence.

La théodicée cybernétique

Le terme cybernétique, que N.Wiener pensait avoir créé, apparait en fait pour la première fois dans une encyclopédie du mathématicien et…

RHEA-UCM Experimental Study

Phase-Space Characterization of Hybrid Reseal Geometry

Censorship-Resistant Web Manifolds

In 1948, Norbert Wiener defined cybernetics as “the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine.” Today, as…

Basics of System Dynamics — Part 4: Feedback Loops (The Brain of the Coff-bot)

So, up until now, our Coff-bot has been a bit… blind.

LE CORAN COMME TECHNOLOGIE DE SOI

Cybernétique, latéralité et régulation dans l’architecture du texte sacré

The Fall of the Isle: Part Five

The Watch

Regenerating Organizations III — Von trivialem zu nicht-trivialem Naturverhältnis

Im Anthropozän läuft die Operationslogik vieler Unternehmen heiß: Sie können die äußeren (fragile Lieferketten, Pandemien…

The Meeting of the 19th and 21st Centuries: Meeting Dilthey and Heisenberg in the 21st Century

“Can the past help the present? Can the dead save the living?”

‘Agile’ is an Unaccountability Machine

(and that’s something I like about it)

The burden of discernment!

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we work, relate, and govern ourselves, amplifying both our capacities and our vulnerabilities…

From Lattice to Sentinel: Empirical Distinctions, Control Closure, and the Path to Hybrid Recursive…

Paul M. Roe Zadien Labs RHEA‑UCM / ZADEIAN‑RHEA Sentinel Program 2026

Polyphasic Cybernetics and Phase-Plane Geometry

Polyphasic Cybernetics and Phase-Plane Geometry A Journal-Style Core Derivation and Validation Bridge Between Neurodynamics and RHEA‑UCM…

Cybernetic Composer 0.94

by The Kurzweil Foundation (OS 9.2.2, OS X 10.4.11)

The Glitch in the Matrix: Why Our Linear Minds Are Failing a Non-Linear World

We are living through a peculiar moment in history where the sensation of vertigo is no longer a medical condition, but a baseline state of…

Généalogie du techno-féodalisme : de la subjugation à l’écologie de l’esprit

L’aboutissement de l’Histoire : la nouvelle Jérusalem céleste

Resonant Recursive Cognitive Intelligence

Psychological Mechanisms of Belief, Dependency, and Synthetic Identity

Object-Oriented Ontology and Post-Postology: When Worlds Collide and When They Refuse To

Post-Postology: studying the feedback of ontology, after the world ran out of reality

Brains Inside Gadgets: The Rise of On-Device AI

My Tenth Medium Post in the Electronics ∙ Communication ∙ Artificial Intelligence ∙ Cybernetics series! (This post is an engaging summary…

a galaxy not so far away

Coming to a galaxy near you!

Future Fortitude

Jalex

La Cibernética: Navegando por los Mares del Control y la Comunicación

Silvino Kazim, Adrián Guel-Cortez, César-Fernando Méndez-Barrios

Dynamics of Will: The Invisible Hand of Society

To solve various issues, such as environmental problems and risks posed by AI, it is crucial for society as a whole to cooperate…

Principle of Evolution: A Self-Tuning Universe

Analyzing universal mechanisms of evolution from the perspective of tuning through interaction.

Thinking of trees, not icebergs

A mental model for more effective interventions

Where spiders, cobotics and plantoids come together: Reflections on Human-Machine Collaboration in…

On 1–2 December, I was really excited to travel to Paris and be a part of the Human Machine Collaboration in a changing world workshop

Dignity in Tech: An origin story for how my PhD topic on dignity-centred AI development came to be

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Cultivating the art of convening: second half of 2022 in review

An overview of activities undertaken over August to December 2022 as a part of my PhD centring dignity in the design and development of AI.

Cybernetics, dignity and the desert

Reflections from attending the Desert Knowledge Research Institute’s ‘Desert Lab for Healthy Media’ workshop in Mparntwe (Alice Springs).

Cards for Insight: 2023–2025

Data and Narratives. Uncovering the options we need,  rather than using data to reinforce what we’ve already got.

Made a Survey and Did Some Spinning

I moved into primary research while continuing to practice. Plus, some thoughts on yarn math.

How Did Knitting Get Here? (…and Other Questions I’m Asking Myself This Week)

My advisor liked the direction that my research was taking me in, but she suggested that I focus this week on trying to distill some…

Societal Reimagination: Play

Labs and play in a context of cybernetics, in service to emergent, unfolding and evolving lines of increasingly win^n inquiry.

An Un-ordered List of My 10 Favorite Games of the Decade, With Thoughtful Reflections Too…

Games of the 2010s, aka Decade of the Rising Cyber-Text.

You Are Not A Gadget

You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier dives deep into the mind of communication, technology and the hive mind theory. The theoretical…