# Teleogenesis

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In the theory of [cybernetics](/source/cybernetics), '''teleogenesis''' (from the [Greek](/source/Greek_language) ''teleos'' = 'purpose' and ''genesis'' = 'creation') is the creation of goal-creating processes.

According to [Peter Corning](/source/Peter_Corning):
"A cybernetic system is by definition a dynamic purposive system; it is 'designed' to pursue or maintain one or more goals or end-states".

Teleogenesis refers from an extension of classical cybernetics, as proposed by [Norbert Wiener](/source/Norbert_Wiener), Ashby and others in late 1950s.

==See also==
*[Homeostasis](/source/Homeostasis)
*[Homeorhesis](/source/Homeorhesis)

==References==
*Corning, Peter A. "[https://complexsystems.org/publications/thermoeconomics-beyond-the-second-law/ Thermoeconomics: Beyond the second law]" from: www.complexsystems.org

Category:Cybernetics

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