事理学和历史及发展.ppt

* Now that we have touched on some of the key people, their interests, and their contributions, we shall look at a few additional cybernetic concepts. * One important concept is the law of requisite variety. This law states that as a system becomes more complex, the controller of that system must also become more complex, because there are more functions to regulate. In other words, the more complex the system that is being regulated, the more complex the regulator of the system must be. * Lets return to our example of a thermostat. * If a house has only a furnace, the thermostat can be q