Tag: ashby law Only Variety Can Absorb Variety November 11, 2012 I recently read the expression only variety can absorb variety, but I had no idea what it meant. It took me some time, but I figured it out. It is a short version of the Law of the Requisite Variety by William Ross Ashby (on the right), a pioneer in Cybernetics: The larger the variety of actions available to a control system, the larger the variety of perturbations it is able to compensate.more...
Only Variety Can Absorb Variety November 11, 2012 I recently read the expression only variety can absorb variety, but I had no idea what it meant. It took me some time, but I figured it out. It is a short version of the Law of the Requisite Variety by William Ross Ashby (on the right), a pioneer in Cybernetics: The larger the variety of actions available to a control system, the larger the variety of perturbations it is able to compensate.more...