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framework:multiscale-cybernetic-frameworkMultiscale Cybernetic Framework
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- Michael Levinassociated_with
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- Multiscale Polycomputation Frameworkrelated_to
- Cyberneticssubtype_ofA mathematical and engineering framework for understanding goal-directed behavior in systems through feedback control mechanisms. Cybernetics formalizes how systems maintain purposive behavior and self-regulation, with applications spanning biology (morphogenetic control), behavioral science, and artificial systems; it provides rigorous language to analyze teleological processes without invoking teleology.
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- Systems prevalent in biology that can organize into complex patterns; architecture supports long-range coherence.
- A framework originating from Levin that formalizes how hierarchical biological systems—from cells to tissues to organs—exhibit integrated problem-solving and adaptive plasticity across multiple levels of organization (metabolic, transcriptional, physiological, anatomical). It models system-level behaviors as emergent from competition and cooperation among heterogeneous subunits within composite agents, explaining how goals and regulations scale across biological scales.
- Intersection Steenson researched in master's thesis on Cedric Price's Generator project; precursor to her work on AI and architecture.
- Hierarchy of homeostatic/allostatic control levels used to argue biological patterns are goals, not mere emergent outcomes.