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Part 1: Workbook · Section 2: Six concepts essential to understand before we can structure the next level of civilisation

Chapter 5: Cybernetic control systems for machines can be applied to humans

Draft v12.2 · 5 October 2026

Viable systems at every level depend on the same recurring control-and-correction architecture—aim, boundary, range, sensing, comparison, interpretation, decision, action and learning—even though the work inside those functions becomes more complex as the level rises.

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