Political Science · Public Administration
UGC NET July 2016 Political Science
Cybernetics means:
AScience of communicating
BCommunication methods
CArtificial intelligence
DScience of control and communication ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Science of control and communication — Cybernetics means the science of control and communication, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★Cybernetics means the science of control and communication, so that is the answer.
★The term was coined by Norbert Wiener to study control and communication in animals and machines alike.
★It centres on the idea of feedback, where a system's output is fed back to regulate its future behaviour.
★Such systems work through a closed signalling loop in which actions change the environment and that change guides the next action.
★Applied to administration, it explains how organisations self-correct by monitoring results against goals.
★The science of communicating and mere communication methods are too narrow, as they omit the crucial element of control.
★Artificial intelligence is a related but distinct field concerned with machine reasoning, not the control-communication core of cybernetics.
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