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   Ashby, W. R. 1958. [5]Requisite variety and its implications for the control of
   complex systems. Cybernetica 1, no. 2:83-99.

   Ashby, W. R. 1962. [6]Principles of the self-organizing system. Principles of
   Self-Organization 255-278.

   Ashby, W. R. [7]The Contribution of Information Theory to Pathological Mechanisms
   in Psychiatry , BCL 164, fiche #9, 16-31.

   Bateson, G. 1969. [8]The position of humor in human communication. Motivation in
   humor 159-166.

   Boulding, K. E. 1956. [9]General Systems Theory-The Skeleton of Science.
   Management Science 2, no. 3:197-208.

   Conant, R.C. & Ashby, W.R., 1970. [10]Every good regulator of a system must be a
   model of that system. International Journal of Systems Science, 1(2), p.89-97.

   von Foerster, H. 1984. [11]On constructing a reality. The invented reality 41-61.

   von Foerster, H. 1966. [12]From stimulus to symbol: The economy of biological
   computation. Sign, Image, Symbol, Braziller, New York, NY.

   Lettvin, J. Y., H. R. Maturana, W. S. McCulloch, and W. H. Pitts. 1959. [13]What
   the frog's eye tells the frog's brain. Proc. IRE 47, no. 11:1940-59.

   Maruyama, M. 1963. [14]Deviation-amplifying mutual causal processes. American
   Scientist 51:164.

   Maturana, H. R. 1974. [15]Cognitive strategies. Cybernetics of cybernetics
   457-469.

   Rosenblueth, A., N. Wiener, and J. Bigelow. 1943. [16]Behavior, Purpose and
   Teleology. Philosophy of Science 10, no. 1:18-24.

   Shannon, C. E. 1948. [17]A mathematical theory of communication Bell Syst. Tech.
   J 27, no. 3:379-423.

   Simon, H.A., 1962.[18] The architecture of complexity. Proceedings of the
   American Philosophical Society, 106(6), 467-482.
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