In light of the enormous interest in building intelligent systems, this volume blends theory, applications, and methodology of cybernetics taking it out of the realm of the abstract and explaining how cybernetics can contribute to an improved understanding of intelligence. Among the topics of the 17

1: Cybernetics; 2: Homeostatics; 3: Systems Everywhere; 4: What is System-Science? Definition One; 5: Sociocybernetics; 6: Order, Evolution, and Natural Law: Fundamental Relations in Complex System Theory; 7: Are Institutions Entities of a Natural Kind? A Consideration of the Outlook for Mankind; 8: Intelligent Models of Economic and Social Systems; 9: Dynamics in a Hierarchically Organized System: Coupled Individual, Population, and Ecosystem Levels; 10: Knowledge Measurement, Cognitive Complexity, and Cybernetics of Mutual Man-Machine Adaptation; 11: Pullback Versus Feedback; 12: Parallel Distributed Processing; 13: Introduction to Neural Networks; 14: Neural Network Vector Quantization in Image Coding; 15: Theory of the Fuzzy Controller: A Brief Survey; 16: From Symbol Manipulation to Understanding Cognition: A Critical Introduction to Cognitive Science from a Computational Neuroepistemology Perspective; 17: Active Seismic Response Controlled Structure: Cybernetic-Active Control Philosophy