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11. Cybernetics, Homoeostasis and Script Abstract:  Cybernetics as a controlling and regulating mechanism in the context of script is first explained. Then Cybernetics as it concerns communication is presented. This blog ends by first mentioning how script maintains its  homoeostasis  and then by explaining how cybernetics aids maintaining homoeostasis of script. Cybernetics is a study of regulatory systems. Hero a Greek Engineer dating back from the first century CE ( All about Hero ) is credited to be the great grandfather of cybernetics. He built a steam engine which was not put to commercial use. It is James Watt who in 1788 used a centrifugal governor ( James Watt and Centrifugal Governor ) to control the speed of his steam engine. A household example of a cybernetic controller is the valve on top of the steam cooker. Avid enthusiasts are invited to look up cybernetics in Wikipedia at ( Cybernetics - History and Areas of Application ).  We may ...

Cybernetics and Script Infants and children have these basic needs: Warmth, touch, nurture, affection, care, attention and acceptance. Growing children are driven by curiosity, inquisitiveness, activity, learning, knowing and display for attention seeking and appreciation. Teenagers seek association, sharing, cross-sex socialisation, role modelling, growing to adulthood and supported freedom. Adults seek respect, regard, recognition, appreciation, attention, acceptance, authority, freedom and independence.  Dealing with  reality and reality situations (click:  Terms, Concepts and Ideas  for details) is an ongoing engagement for all of us. All of us face surprise when we are ordered, questioned, evaluated, appraised or / and labelled. This is all the more true for children. They feel 'bad' many times a day by being subjected to this process. It generates conditioning. The growing child inadvertently generates 'safe play areas'. The relationship of infants wit...

Cybernetics  and Script Abstract: S cript payoff is one of seven items that constitute the script apparatus and one of three script's controls.  (Berne E. What Do You Say After You Say Hello - Chapter 3) . The course, flow, method, mode, pace, events are determined by the script payoff. The script payoff is therefore the script goal. Script goal is cybernetic. How script goal is decided is best understood by knowing second order cybernetics. The topics of cybernetics is  covered in this blog. Cybernetics:  We used mechanical alarm clocks in times long past. We set the alarm a day earlier. This setting was done by switching and adjusting the alarm time. The alarm would ring at the set time. This explains the concept of cybernetics.  The set time determines the event of alarm. Cybernetics became part of switching and programming with the advent of electronics. It became widely used in designing military hardware. An excellent example is a homing torpedo o...