# Cybernetics

**Workstream:** WS1 (see `ResearchProgram.md`)  
**Objective:** First- and second-order cybernetics, control, self-reference.

## Status

**Phase I integrated** (2026-08-12). Ashby / Conant–Ashby / regulation map in
`research/foundations/001-*.md` and `sources/bibliography.md`.

## Key questions

*(Pull from ResearchProgram.md and refine as work proceeds.)*

## Sources

Link entries from `sources/bibliography.md` and notes under
`sources/source-notes/`.

## Notes

Working notes and interim syntheses for this research area live in this directory.