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by hef19898 1524 days ago
I doubt Nietzsche's system is of the kind coverd by system engineers.
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Not sure why you say that. Having read a great deal of both I can confidently assure you they are deeply related. Nietzsche doesn't use process notation or equations for calculating closed loop feedback gain. Shannon, Wiener or Weaver don't directly address the question of whether the cultural software of our society lies within its institutions or individuals. Nonetheless they are both talking about the same subject - one that is highly apropos the precarious situation we find ourselves in today with respect to our failing social cybernetics.
Sytems engineering, as a engineering discipline, is treating other things than Nietzsche did. Unless you go to philosophical meta questions about "systems", I have yet to encounter those in real life.