THE MECHANICS OF MIRRORS — A STUDY IN CYBERNETICS

September 2025

Cybernetics isn’t about machines — it’s about feedback. About how everything, from the brain to an economy to a conversation, runs on loops that constantly adjust, correct, and evolve. Norbert Wiener called it “the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine,” but what he really built was a new way to see the world — as a network of self-regulating systems, all whispering if this, then that.

Cybernetics teaches that nothing exists alone. Your body, your phone, your city, your algorithmic feed — they’re all mirrors wired into each other, reflecting and reshaping behavior in real time. The moment you send a signal, you become part of a loop: influenced and influencing. The irony is, the more advanced our systems become, the more they start to resemble us — anxious, self-correcting, endlessly chasing equilibrium. In the end, cybernetics isn’t just a science. It’s a philosophy disguised as circuitry: the study of how chaos learns to listen.