The field of cybernetics covers 100% of this context
The fact that nobody considers cybernetics an actual functional study is an unmitigated tragedy - based on politics - that needs to be fixed immediately
Wiener, etc. laid the whole thing out, gave a very compelling and clear way to approach questions and complexity, and we are just as a field completely ignoring it to our own detriment with this idea that somebody needs to invent it
The fact that nobody considers cybernetics an actual functional study is an unmitigated tragedy - based on politics - that needs to be fixed immediately
Wiener, etc. laid the whole thing out, gave a very compelling and clear way to approach questions and complexity, and we are just as a field completely ignoring it to our own detriment with this idea that somebody needs to invent it