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Original Articles

AMPLIFYING REGULATION AND VARIETY INCREASE IN EVOLVING SYSTEMS

Pages 285-296 | Received 01 Mar 1978, Published online: 27 Mar 2007
 

Abstract

The cybernetic theory of regulation is applied to a characterization of evolution, with emphasis on an interpretation of the directional aspects of evolutionary processes. In the suggested context, evolution appears as a general type of stability, and a perception of the world as a hierarchy of structures differentiated by discontinuities and characterized by an increasing order of complexity and organization, obtains a specific functional meaning. Such a hierarchy can be regarded as a stratified organization of controllers interacting such that across its levels, regulation is amplified.

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