# W. Ross Ashby **Domain:** Cybernetics / Psychiatry / Systems Theory **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Requisite Variety]], [[Cybernetics]], [[Complex Adaptive Systems]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] --- ## Definition British psychiatrist and cybernetician known for the Homeostat, _An Introduction to Cybernetics_ and the law of requisite variety. ## Kybernetiks Context Ashby supplies the formal vocabulary through which the article interprets standardization as a response to limited [[Regulator Variety|regulator variety]]. ## Backlinks [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]