From: Durant Schoon (durant@ilm.com)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 15:03:42 MDT
> From: "Ben Houston" <ben@exocortex.org>
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:18:15 -0400
>
> The Law of Requisite Variety
>
> As a possibly useful side-note I would point you to "the law of
> requisite variety" of the cybernetician Ross Ashby. This law concerns
> the relationship between to interacting systems. It states that for
> system A to regulate (i.e. control) another system B, system A must have
> at least the variety of system B. In other words the more adaptive
> controls the less adaptive...
>
>
> References:
> http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/REQVAR.html
> http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/LAW_VARIE.html
I'll have to check these out later, but it may mean that even a Power (I
have to look up this exact term) is susceptible to a Double or Triple
Power.
-- Durant Schoon
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