Laser Speckle Keys: IEE, IEEE MIEE CEng MIEEE MInstP cybernetic autopoiesis emergence self adaptive unsupervised adaptive engineer Protolog Tony Booth Anthony Booth A Booth A G Booth Anthony Gerald Booth BTS APC Welwyn ASL automatic switching laser speckle vibration Sellafield Windscale King's College Kings College Newcastle Portsmouth Streatham London Stretham ESOC OTS Darmstadt SNPPYK Anthony G Booth   C Eng Engineering Technologist

  Essays on engineering design with a cybernetics framework:

• Reconciling Physics with Cybernetics.
       Our concepts of "objectivity" are set too narrowly for certain practical purposes.
• Essential Structure in Physical Observation.
       At the heart of any process of observation there are certain basic things which must happen.
• Electrodynamic Quantisation in a Causal Continuum -- Why not?.
       Can we really not establish quantisation as a phenomenon emergent from a continuum?
• Beyond Shannon's Channel.
       Musings following reading and dialogue on the bionet.info-theory newsgroup in 1994.
• Better Sand Castles -- A Model for Adaptive Systems.
       How we might extend commonplace ideas to handle the design of complex self adaptive systems.
• A Demonstration of Unsupervised Learning in a Model Neuron.
       Unsupervised learning can seem to cheat the statistical laws of information.
• Complex Design with Minimal Commitment -- with Application to Artificial Neurons.
       The choice of models and how they are applied is of crucial importance.
• Shortcomings of Causal Modelling.
       A naive conjectural query.

  Optical (LSA):

• Rotation Measurement by Optical Speckle.
       Clarifying the principle of a certain type of angular motion transducer.
• Interpolative Estimation of Pattern Motion using Bilinear Functions.
       Sensitivity and noise in the detection of small movements of an electronic image .... inner products of image vectors.

  Links to Engineering Consultants Network in IEE Professional Group pg-m9.

  Some cybernetics links:

•      Links to on-line texts relevant to cybernetics.
•      Cybernetics Society London.
•      K.Matsuno -- Natural Philosophy.
•      Principia Cybernetica Web.
•      Cybernetics part of the Oikos ecology site.
•      Educational Cybernetics.

  A couple of ideas ....

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki	Zen philosophical writer 1869-1966
He wrote in 1949 at age 80:

"Man makes many tools and uses them effectively in various fields of his activity,
but he is always exposing himself to the tyranny of the tools he has made.
The result is that he is no more master of himself, but an abject slave to his surroundings,
and the worst thing is that he is not conscious of this fact.
This is specially noticeable in the realm of thought."

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