{"title":"Mental health: systems and non-systems.","authors":"F. Hayes-Roth, R. Longabaugh, R. Ryback","doi":"10.1080/00207411.1976.11448743","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It is a primary aim of industrial cybernetics to harness this ability of a system to teach itself optimum behaviour. To do it, however, we must know how to design the system in the first place as a machine-for-teaching-itself. There must be exactly the right flow of information in the right places; rich interconnectivity; facilities for the growth of feedbacks and many-one transformation circuits; and so on. The exceedingly complex system must be designed as a black box.","PeriodicalId":76611,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of medical psychology","volume":"57 1","pages":"317-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1973-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"12","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The British journal of medical psychology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207411.1976.11448743","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
It is a primary aim of industrial cybernetics to harness this ability of a system to teach itself optimum behaviour. To do it, however, we must know how to design the system in the first place as a machine-for-teaching-itself. There must be exactly the right flow of information in the right places; rich interconnectivity; facilities for the growth of feedbacks and many-one transformation circuits; and so on. The exceedingly complex system must be designed as a black box.