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By a state of a system is meant any well-defined condition or property that can be recognised if it occurs again. Every system will naturally have many possible states.

W. Ross Ashby

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About W. Ross Ashby

W. Ross Ashby (September 6, 1903 – November 15, 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics and the study of complex systems.

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Native Name: William Ross Ashby

Alternative Names: W. R. Ashby

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As shorthand, when the phenomena are suitably simple, words such as equilibrium and stability are of great value and convenience. Nevertheless, it should be always borne in mind that they are mere shorthand, and that the phenomena will not always have the simplicity that these words presuppose.

Variety can destroy variety.

Further, as every law of nature implies the existence of an invariant, it follows that every law of nature is a constraint.

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