Teleogenesis
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In the theory of [[cybernetics]], '''teleogenesis''' (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''teleos'' = 'purpose' and ''genesis'' = 'creation') is the creation of goal-creating processes.
According to [[Peter Corning]]:
"A cybernetic system is by definition a dynamic purposive system; it is 'designed' to pursue or maintain one or more goals or end-states".
Teleogenesis refers from an extension of classical cybernetics, as proposed by [[Norbert Wiener]], Ashby and others in late 1950s.
==See also==
*[[homeostasis]]
*[[homeorhesis]]
==References==
*Corning, Peter A. "Thermoeconomics: Beyond the second law" from: www.complexsystems.org
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