Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

The environment as we perceive it is our invention.

Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.

Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.