When I entered graduate school in 2014 with the goal of studying biological control systems, something I quickly noticed was that many of the most prominent people in the field seemed to have an incredible admiration for the ideas that grew out of Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics movement. Not knowing any of the history, the term cybernetics sounded more like something out of an early Isaac Asimov novel than a genuine research discipline. Though there was this clear admiration of cybernetics, Wiener’s work, for the most part, was not directly incorporated in our curriculum or textbooks in the way that the works of Bode, Shannon, and Nyquist were, aside from a few highly technical topics like Wiener filters and Wiener processes. What I took from this is that it must have been an interesting idea but not something that was a central part of the rest of the theoretical framework for analyzing feedback systems that made up my first years in the control systems graduate program.

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控制论，系统生物学和现象学的差距[历史观点]

2014年我以研究生物控制系统为目标进入研究生院时，我很快注意到，该领域的许多最杰出人物似乎对诺伯特·维纳（Norbert Wiener）的控制论运动所产生的想法有着令人难以置信的钦佩。不知道任何历史，这个词控制论听起来更像是艾萨克·阿西莫夫（Isaac Asimov）早期小说中的某些东西，而不是真正的研究学科。尽管对控制论有一种清晰的钦佩，但除了维纳（Wiener）等一些技术性很强的主题外，维纳的著作在大多数情况下并未像博德（Bode），香农（Shannon）和奈奎斯特（Nyquist）的著作那样直接纳入我们的课程或教科书中。过滤器和维纳过程。我从中得到的是，这肯定是一个有趣的想法，但并不是构成我在控制系统研究生课程的第一年的分析反馈系统的其余理论框架的核心部分。