Cybernetical People in Adelaide

Alan Stewart convened a forum in Adelaide called the Cybernetics Group and this is the song I wrote in honour of that group on the occasion of a visit for a workshop in 1993.

Biological Cybernetics A Scientific Revue

1. Cybernetical people in Adelaide
Are people who live in a song
With melody fine, an
Occasional rhyme and a
Feeling strong (feeling strong)
That whatever should happen in Adelaide
And whether its right or its wrong
We'll sing a polemic on
Matters systemical
All day long!
(We'll sing a polemic on
Matters systemical
All day long!)

2. Cybernetical people in Adelaide
Are in the political fray
They study autonomy
In the economy
Have their say (have their say)
And the true believers in Adelaide
Believe that it is okay
To practise reflexion and
Make a connection in
Every way!
(To practise reflexion and
Make a connection in
Every way!)

3. Cybernetical people in Adelaide
They speak for me and for you
Proactive cognition with
Some repetition we
All can do (all can do)
So that people from all over Adelaide
Will want to verbalise too
An heuristic fiction
Without contradiction as
If it's true!
(An heuristic fiction
Without contradiction as
If it's true!)

4. Cybernetical people in Adelaide
Are never reluctant to say
Objectively rigorous
Accurate figures have
Had their day (had their day)
And the steersmen and women of Adelaide
Are so dynamic they may
Dispense with the actual
Forego the factual
And let's play!
(Dispense with the actual
Forego the factual
And let's play!)

5. Cybernetical people in Adelaide
Are tautologically free
And interrelated
Holistically stated is
How to be (how to be)
And we speak this riddle in Adelaide
That to believe is to see
And here is a thesis on
Autopoiesis from
A to Z!
(And here is a thesis on
Autopoiesis from
A to Z!)

6. Cybernetical people in Adelaide
Are people who know how to choose
The paradox lurking
There in the working of
Words we use (words we use)
So we can in the suburbs of Adelaide
Epistemologically
Construct a reality
Free of banality
That's good news!
(Construct a reality
Free of banality
That's good news!)

7. Cybernetical people in Adelaide
Occasionally run into strife
With sudden saltatory
Self-regulatory
Ways of life (ways of life)
By developing language in Adelaide
So neologisms are rife
Is that in the dictionary?
Or is it fictionary?
Ah! that's life!
(Is that in the dictionary?
Or is it fictionary?
Ah! that's life!)

8. Cybernetical people in Adelaide
Have something important to say
On being adaptive and
Most interactive at
Work and play (work and play)
And we join with the people in Adelaide
In showing each other the way
We haven't a clue if it
Benefits you but it
Feels okay!
(We haven't a clue if it
Benefits you but it
Feels okay!)