© 1975-1979, 2008 Robert A. Freitas Jr. All Rights Reserved.

Robert A. Freitas Jr., Xenology: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Extraterrestrial Life, Intelligence, and Civilization, First Edition, Xenology Research Institute, Sacramento, CA, 1979; http://www.xenology.info/Xeno.htm

21.3  Extraterrestrial Organizational Cybernetics

Cybernetics is the scientific study of control and communications systems. Since information is the lifeblood of any organization, the cybernetic analysis of alien governments involves handling flows of data and the management of entropy.^{822,1030,3071} Xenologists are primarily concerned with the problems of system complexity, system structure, and functional system stability in extraterrestrial political organizations.

Last updated on 6 December 2008