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puddle of our constituent chemicals.

We are matter structured by information.

"We are starshine" ---Woodstock

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Whew!

Cybernetics is VERY heavy-duty stuff.

It can yield the ULTIMATE in control.

It can be applied to controlling people in a society.

Cybernetic control of society.

The 'arousal filter' Stafford Beer and his cyberneticians
set up was effectively keyword monitoring of traffic.

When you use keywords to either select or exclude traffic, each step
is a 'filter' step. If you make it past all the filters, a human then
reviews the results to see if it calls for action. "arousal filter"

Mr. Beer was trying to help the economy by massive real-time monitoring
of factories and companies and banks, and thus help the people of Chile.

* "Brain of the Firm", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1
*
* Twenty-four hours a day, messages were flowing in non-stop. This instantly
* posed an enormous problem in handling the inundation of information.
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* Two of the senior cyberneticians organized a filtration system.

The feedback was not simply machine throughput rates, but also---via
the central computer---a system 'through which anyone could consult
anyone else'.

I used keyword monitoring to filter "information" from "noise" in
Salomon's HUGE email traffic. What I did, of course, was small potatoes;
what Stafford Beer did was a serious cybernetic attempt to control an
entire nation's economy.

In order for him to do that, he needed to set
up a (cybernetic) monitoring infrastructure.

The nation's bank