Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Law of Requisite Variety

"The variety in the control system must be equal to or larger than the variety of the perturbations in order to achieve control"

This simply means that a flexible system with many options is better able to cope with change. One that is tightly optimized for an initial set of conditions might be more efficient whilst those conditions prevail but fail totally should conditions change.

http://www.wyrdology.com/mind/creativity/variety.html