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    Biocybernetics

    Biocybernetics is the application of cybernetics to biological science disciplines such as neurology and
    multicellular systems. Biocybernetics plays a major role in systems biology, seeking to integrate different
    levels of information to understand how biological systems function. The field of cybernetics itself has
    origins in biological disciplines such as neurophysiology. Biocybernetics is an abstract science and is a
    fundamental part of theoretical biology, based upon the principles of systemics. Biocybernetics is a
    psychological study that aims to understand how the human body functions as a biological system and
    performs complex mental functions like thought processing, motion, and maintaining homeostasis.
    (PsychologyDictionary.org)Within this field, many distinct qualities allow for different distinctions  within
    the cybernetic groups such as humans and insects such as beehives and ants. Humans work together but
    they also have individual thoughts that allow them to act on their own, while worker bees follow the
    commands of the queen bee.  (Seeley, 1989). Although humans often work together, they can also separate
    from the group and think for themselves.(Gackenbach, J. 2007) A unique example of this within the human
    sector of biocybernetics would be in society during the colonization period, when Great Britain established
    their colonies in North America and Australia. Many of the traits and qualities of the mother country were
    inherited by the colonies, as well as niche qualities that were unique to them based on their areas like
    language and personality—similar vines and grasses, where the parent plant produces offshoots, spreading
    from the core.  Once the shoots grow their roots and get separated from the mother plant, they will survive
    independently and be considered their plant. Society is more closely related to plants than to animals since,
    like plants, there is no distinct separation between parent and offspring. The branching of society is more
    similar to plant reproduction than to animal reproduction. Humans are a k- selected species that typically
    have fewer offspring that they nurture for longer periods than r -selected species. It could be argued that
    when Britain created colonies in regions like North America and Australia, these colonies, once they
    became independent, should be seen as offspring of British society. Like all children, the colonies inherited
    many characteristics, such as language, customs and technologies, from their parents, but still developed
    their own personality. This form of reproduction is most similar to the type of vegetative reproduction used
    by many plants, such as vines and grasses, where the parent plant produces offshoots, spreading ever
    further from the core. When such a shoot, once it has produced its own roots, gets separated from the
    mother plant, it will survive independently and define a new plant. Thus, the growth of society is more like
    that of plants than like that of the higher animals that we are most familiar with, there is not a clear
    distinction between a parent and its offspring. Superorganisms are also capable of the so-called "distributed
    intelligence," a system composed of individual agents with limited intelligence and information. These can
    pool resources to complete goals beyond the individuals' reach on their own. Similar to the concept of
    "Game theory." (Durlauf, S.N., Blume, L.E. 2010) In this concept, individuals and organisms make
    choices based on the behaviors of the other player to deem the most profitable outcome for them as an
    individual rather than a group.

    Terminology
    Biocybernetics is a conjoined word from bio (Greek: βίο / life) and cybernetics (Greek: κυβερνητική /
    controlling-governing). Although the extended form of the word is biological cybernetics, the field is most
    commonly referred to as biocybernetics in scientific papers.

    Early proponents
    Early proponents of biocybernetics include Ross Ashby, Hans Drischel, and Norbert Wiener among others.
    Popular papers published by each scientist are listed below.

    Ross Ashby, "Introduction to Cybernetics", 1956[1]


    Hans Drischel, "Einführung in die Biokybernetik." 1972[2]
    Norbert Wiener, "Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine", 1948[3]

    Similar fields
    Papers and research that delve into topics involving biocybernetics may be found under a multitude of
    similar names, including molecular cybernetics, neurocybernetics, and cellular cybernetics. Such fields
    involve disciplines that specify certain aspects of the study of the living organism (for example,
    neurocybernetics focuses on the study neurological models in organisms).

    Categories
    Biocybernetics – the study of an entire living organism
    Neurocybernetics – cybernetics dealing with neurological models. (Psycho-Cybernetics was
    the title of a self-help book, and is not a scientific discipline)
    Molecular cybernetics – cybernetics dealing with molecular systems (e.g. molecular biology
    cybernetics)
    Cellular cybernetics – cybernetics dealing with cellular systems (e.g. information
    technology/cell phones or biological cells)
    Evolutionary cybernetics – study of the evolution of informational systems (See also
    evolutionary programming, evolutionary algorithm)

    See also
    Bioinformatics
    Biosemiotics
    Computational biology
    Computational biomodeling
    Medical cybernetics
    List of biomedical cybernetics software

    References
    1. W. Ross Ashby, Introduction to Cybernetics. Methuen, London, UK, 1956. PDF text (http://pe
    spmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf).
    2. Hans Drischel, Einführung in die Biokybernetik. Berlin 1972
    3. Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine,
    (Hermann & Cie Editeurs, Paris, The Technology Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, John
    Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1948).

    External links
    Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
    Journal "Biological Cybernetics" (https://archive.today/20130111091403/http://www.springer
    link.com/link.asp?id=100465)
    Scientific portal on biological cybernetics (http://www.biological-cybernetics.eu)
    UCLA Biocybernetics Laboratory (http://biocyb.cs.ucla.edu)
    Durlauf, Steven N.; Blume, Lawrence E. (2010). "Game Theory and Biology". Game Theory.
    pp. 119–126. doi:10.1057/9780230280847_12 (https://doi.org/10.1057%2F9780230280847
    _12). ISBN 978-0-230-23890-9.

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