foundational cybernetic patterns
Cybernetics in my view is a field very adjacent to memetics that deals with “commanding”, alignment and cooperation of behaviours in an ecosystem. It’s about studying the emergent or designed feedback loops in a memetic ecosystem or platform that constraint/guide the memetic evolution.
In greek, a “κυβερνήτης” (kybernḗtēs) is the person who steers a ship. Also “κυβέρνηση” means “government”.
So imo, cybernetics points not only to the studying of the feedback loops that lead to memetic evolution, but specifically to the coordination problem, the alignment problem, and all the “-cracies” (democracy, aristocracy, plutocracy etc etc etc) in other words (very very vague analogy that i need to refine incoming) if memetics is the electricity and the logic gates, cybernetics is the Turing machine that runs the OS of society.