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"Introduction to Cybernetics" is technical and very much in the spirit of CS. A lot of what gets called "cybernetics" tends to be kind of "fluffy" and I personally avoid that stuff. I'd recommend Norbert Wiener's "Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics:_Or_Control_and_Co...

And "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology" by Rosenblueth, Wiener and Bigelow:

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/Wiener-teleology.pdf



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