Social pct and personalities

Fundamentals
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Here in the following video we see the Stanford beers’ model of cybernetics which can be viewed as a pct control system, here we see it as applied to an organization or a social system.

[https://youtu.be/aSknWjWgAkQ](http://“UMS and the master herder” Stanford beer cybernetic system video)

The five horses type mentioned can be correlated to the five personalities types of the “big five personalities traits” here:
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits?wprov=sfti1](http://Big five personalities Wikipedia page)

According to these things, our personality can be a function of our position or function within groups.

So a social pct model could give different functions in a group to different types of people as together they would act as a control system seeking to maintain some references.

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Stafford Beer, not Stanford Beer.

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Yes!, the auto correct changed unbeknownst to me :slight_smile:

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[Richard Pfau (2019.10.23 16:10 EST)]

I don’t see how the video is especially relevant to PCT. Please explain.

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The various parts of the UMS cybernetics model can be correlated to the various parts of the basic control circuit (input, reference, output, environment, total system).

Like the 4 functions of the control circuit: imagination; Input and output off, automatic mode; input off, passive observation mode; input off and control mode; all on.
In hpct there could be like a 5th and 6th mode since it can connect or not to the lower or higher control systems.