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Good Regulator Theorems

Edited by abramdemski last updated 18th Sep 2023

The Good Regulator Theorem is a theorem by Roger Conant and W. Ross Ashby which supposedly proves that "every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system". In fact, there are some problems with that informal characterization.

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