I will try my best to describe some of my own opinions and comments about the three texts of Cybernetics. The texts were speaking of a very interesting and odd realm of thought about which I want to explain my own interpretations first. It is very interesting to me that the status of “More probable the message, les information it gives”, which sounds to be something about literature, can be proved via Gibbs’ “Entropy” with help of some logarithmic equations. I will come back to this later but the point which, in my view point, is important is that with help of Cybernetics, every domain of human knowledge seem to have a connectivity and continuity with each other. We can see all examples of this within the texts; Institutions, media, technology, systems, control, etc. on the one hand and Philosophy, Physics, Telecommunications, Electronics, Literature, Art and Architecture (for sure) on the other, have some sort of integrity which can be explained through “message” and Cybernetics.

In the article of “Cybernetics in history” we can see author is trying to show the very basic type of message to a complicated one to explain the structure and conception of messages. In terms of structure, messages should be readable to our nervous system through our senses; “Visual, Verbal or Tactile” as explained by Gordon Pask in his article. Even though we can receive a message with all our five senses, regarding the speed of light, visual messages are very common. And if we look to Maxwell and Faraday’s Works we can find out that Electrical pulses are somehow a sort of light messages. In this way I (am not sure if I can) conclude that Electronics, as a medium for the message, is extension of our vision and for sure our eyes.

In Stanford Beer’s piece we can see an effort to solve machine era problems (which are produced by machines) through machines themselves. He explained the misuse of computer as a machine to calculate instead of a machine to communicate which clearly mention the power of messages and communications. He talked also about the Ashby’s law of “Variety against variety”. The following is my personal comment about this law. If consider the absence of balance between requisite and regulatory varieties as an increase Entropy, which is the will of nature. On the other hand the author showed us how the problem can be fixed with help of Cybernetics and he explained that some messages should be sent and received. The “Information carried by a message”, is “essentially the negative of its entropy” according to Norbert Wiener’s text. That’s why it is possible to rebalance the unbalanced Varieties in system by sending information through messages which are a flow of entropy reduction.

When looking to Architecture as one of the above mentioned disciplines, it looks so amazing the way it changes through the history. From symbolism as a coded language which carry information to functionalism that tends to control systems, all architectural styles and methods are related to information and messages. Gordon Pask also introduce a new Cybernetic Paradigm in Architecture that I think need more analysis as well as more time.