Abstract
This chapter assesses whether the cybernetic model of predictive behavior and goal-setting is suitable for addressing large-scale and long-term problems. It examines the intellectual contribution to the debates on scientific prediction made by a prominent Soviet Russian scientist, policy entrepreneur, and public intellectual, Nikita Moiseev. Moiseev's thought forms a particularly important part of the global history of scientific prediction, bridging the histories of cybernetics and systems analysis, on the one side, and the histories of authoritarian, liberal, and infrastructural governance, on the other side. The chapter then details how computer-based policy sciences shaped the epistemological framework of late-Soviet thought on Earth systems governance and the role of predictability. It also discusses the transformation of the notion of governance from purposive control to guidance through milieus. This constituted an important shift to embrace the collective, synchronizing role of scientific prediction as it goes beyond cognitive operation as in logical empiricism and beyond target-seeking processes of adaptation in cybernetic behaviorism.
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