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'homeostatic loops'?

The scope of Cybernetics is, in a word, awesome.

A cyberneticist can talk from atoms to cells to nervous systems, to
management of a company, country, world, solar system.

Whether an organism is mechanical, biological or social, it requires
a feedback mechanism to survive.

Your nervous system does some amazing things to fight off infections.

It creates custom anti-bodies to attack foreign microbes.
Custom living cells created through a system of feedback to spot that
there was a problem, analysis of the problem, action on the problem.

This is a life-sustaining feedback 'homeostatic' loop.

[bracket comments are mine]
When Stafford Beer says Cyberstride needed to filter 'homeostatic loops':

* "The Human Use of Human Beings - Cybernetics and Society"
* by Norbert Wiener, 1954, pre-ISBN
*
* The process [such as that employed by our nervous system] by which we
* living beings resist the general stream of corruption and decay is
* known as homeostasis.

Stayin' alive, stayin' alive...

So, "statistical filtratio

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[Al...@bit.listserv.ada-law]

Now there is, humanly speaking, no human certainty, but we have reason.

824. Either God has confounded the false miracles, or He has foretold them;
and in both ways He has raised Himself above what is supernatural with
respect to us, and has raised us to it.

825. Miracles serve not to convert, but to condemn. Part I-II (Q. 113, A.
10, Ad. 2.)[182]

826. Reasons why we do not believe.

John 12:37. Cum autem tanta signa fecisset, non credebant in eum, ut sermo
Isayae impleretur... Excaecavit,183 etc.

Haec dixit Isaias, quando vidit gloriam ejus et locutus est de eo.184

Judaei signa petunt et Graeci sapientiam quaerunt, nos autem Jesum
crucifixum.185 (Sed plenum signis, sed plenum sapientia; vos autem Christum
non crucifixum et religionem sine miraculis et sine sapientia.)[186]

What makes us not believe in the true miracles is want of love. John: Sed
vos non creditis, quia non estis ex ovibus.187 What makes us believe the
false is want of love. Thess. 2.

The foundation of religion. It is the miracles. What then? Does God speak
against miracles, against the foundations of the faith which we have in Him?

If there is a God, faith in God must exist on earth. Now the miracles of
Jesus Christ are not foretold by Antichrist, but the miracles of Antichrist
are foretold by Jesus Christ. And so, if Jesus Christ were not the Messiah,
He would have indeed led into error. When Jesus Christ foretold the miracles
of Antichrist, did He think of destroying faith in His own miracles?

Moses foretold Jesus Christ and bade to follow Him. Jesus Christ foretold
Antichrist and forbade to follow him.

It was impossible that in the time of Moses men should keep their faith for
Antichrist, who was unkno