Cybernetics

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Host Felix Mercer explores cybernetics as the unifying science of feedback and control across machines, organisms, and organizations. From self-regulating loops to warnings about intelligent systems, discover why Norbert Wiener's framework remains essential as technology and biology converge. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Episodes

  1. APR 16

    Cybernetics - Explore the future of human and machine with Felix Mercer

    Join host Felix Mercer as he unravels cybernetics—the hidden science of feedback loops governing everything from your heartbeat to the global economy. Explore how self-regulating systems shape our world and discover what happens when machines start governing loops beyond our control. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV

    1 min

  2. APR 16

    Cybernetics - The Machine's Danger and Wiener's Warning

    Host Felix Mercer explores Norbert Wiener's final warnings about cybernetics and artificial intelligence. Discover how the father of feedback systems predicted today's AI alignment problems in 1950, why machines optimizing for measurable goals produce dangerous outcomes, and what cybernetic theory reveals about our diminishing control over complex technological systems. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV

    36 min

  3. APR 16

    Cybernetics - Order Without a Commander

    Host Felix Mercer explores how complex systems—from rainforests to immune systems to cities—achieve order without central command. Drawing on cyberneticians like William Ross Ashby and Stafford Beer, the episode examines self-organization, requisite variety, and Beer's Viable System Model, including Project Cybersyn in 1970s Chile, revealing why distributed feedback outperforms hierarchical control. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV

    35 min

  4. APR 16

    Cybernetics - The Loop That Governs Everything

    Felix Mercer explores feedback loops—circular information flows that allow systems to sense, compare, and adjust. From thermostats to nervous systems to economies, these loops govern everything. Drawing on Norbert Wiener's cybernetics work, this episode reveals the universal architecture of control connecting machines, organisms, and societies. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV

    32 min

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Host Felix Mercer explores cybernetics as the unifying science of feedback and control across machines, organisms, and organizations. From self-regulating loops to warnings about intelligent systems, discover why Norbert Wiener's framework remains essential as technology and biology converge. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Information

  • Creator
    Inception Point AI
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 Inception Point AI
  • Show Website
    Cybernetics