Asking for some neuronal power

Hi guyz

Some time ago, a fag posted a thread about evolutionary programming. Well, other fag answered saying "Read Maturana and read Ashby".

I listened to him. Maturana is a cool guy, very interesting ideas, but the Ashby's book got me.

I've only read the 1st chapter. The book is a little dense for me. But, I am a little bored of making SQL queries and fixing bash scripts at work. So, i think it could be an interesting quest to develop a "cybernetic library", so i can learn from the book making programs instead of lame excercises...

So, who want's to help me?

I know perl and C, and also some useless and less interesting stuff. The 1st chapter of Asbhys book is very interesting and lays the basic components, like the transform, the transformation, operands and such.

I mostly need "conceptual" help on how to model such primitives.

Help me!

the book = http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/introcyb.pdf

Ok. This is quite simplified, but i hope it reflects the idea

You have a system A, which has a certain amount of "variables". The ammount of these variables is called complexity. Let's call the complexity function C(x).

Then, you have a system B that manages system A. This system has also a certain amount of "variables" (complexity).

I want to study how much complexity is really required on system B to be able to cope with the system A.

Asbhy says that C(B) >= C(A). I want to study how much is REALLY NEEDED.

Why is this needed? Because with this knowledge we can introduce amplificators or reductors of the variety from system A to B or viceversa.

It's a little complicated, but watch this video then it MIGHT make sense.
Is not too long, take a look
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaLHocBdG3A