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Chapter 5: Cybernetic control systems

Draft v12.0 · 18 September 2026

Viable systems at every level depend on the same recurring control-and-correction architecture—aim, boundary, range, sensing, comparison, interpretation, decision, action and learning—even though the work inside those functions becomes more complex as the level rises.

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