cybernetics(n = noun.cognition) - (biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems);
is a kind of informatics, information processing, information science, ip
Derived form adjective cybernetic1
cybernetics, n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.
Derivative:
cybernetic adj. cybernetician n. cyberneticist n.
Etymology:
Gk kubernetes steersman