Stafford Beer on Information Society and Human Being's Free Development
Stanford Bill is one of the few thinkers in the techno-socialist line who combines classical ideas and thinks in a quasi-metaphysical way about how humans can develop in the universe composed of information networks.In the context of infor-mation-based"techno-socialism",he designed a viable system model,attempting to build an information network society that can ensure people's comprehensive and free development based on it.The viable system model is a decentralized structure com-posed of five subsections,featuring recursive nesting and closure.It possesses not only the practical utility in managing intricate information but also aligns with the innate tendencies of human nature.Bill believes that the natural universe can be reduced to a nested structure of viable systems,and human society should imitate nature to design corresponding social organization struc-tures.Man is a typical viable system,and his highest reality is the realization of self-sufficiency,namely the realization of hap-piness.In the future,a society with fully developed artificial intelligence and network technology will inevitably be a symbiotic system of humans and intelligent machines.This system is a dialectical unity of the realization of man's highest reality and the exertion of the potential of the world.
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