HETERONOMY

Charles François (2004). HETERONOMY, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1523.

Collection	International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year	2004
Vol. (num.)	2(1)
ID	◀ 1523 ▶
Object type	General information, Methodology or model

“Condition of a system controlled from outside” (E. SCHWARZ — Glossary, 1993, p.7).

This condition is antinomic to autonomy.

But of course, no system is either entirely autonomous, nor heteronomous. It this last case, it would simply be a part of the environment.