ALGEDONIA word (which we were told to the team that it was) invented by the British philosopher and mathematician STAFFORD BEER (as well as several others) and used in his first book, which he autographed me, THE BRAIN OF THE FIRM where he explains his management model based on the behavior of the human nervous system. It comes from the Greek algeos 'I suffer', and in turn from something, 'pain'. I had contact with him when during the Allende government, in 1971, Fernando Flores (vice president of Corfo at the time, years later senator and minister) wanted to implement CYBERSTRIDE a recursive management model of 5 levels of hierarchy, in which the operating and management model of the first level was replicated, but at a more aggregate level, and then to an even more aggregated The various controlled variables, such as stock of raw materials, human resources, production were controlled for each of the approximately 80 strategic companies in the country; a second level grouped the variables by area, such as metalworking, textile, food. Algedonia was the ability to transfer the information of loss-making variables from a company to the twin to solve the situation. Yes. this did not happen if it had to rise to a higher level of recursion. This is what he called algedonia. For this, a futuristic room was designed with a wall full of projectors and motorized seats that had a command board to control the projectors, but also to sell a cigar or a whiskey and where the auditors placed by the state received the information in slide projections that allowed them to take decisions with the minimum know-how of their companies. For example, a textile company had a variable of inputs under the minimum level and the model of the same level connected and compared with the stock of the second textile and if it could solve by transferring raw material to the other. If this was not feasible, the problem escalated to the upper level, where the same model and process was iterated. ECOM was the company in charge of implementing the computational and logistics part on behalf of Corfo, the Development Corporation, under the Ministry of Economy and I, as an engineer of ECOM, was the Chilean counterpart in this project. I clarify all this because I have read the book Secret History of XChile, by the Chilean escrtor Jorge Baradit, where he grants the last chapter to the Synco project (as it was called in Chile by Sistema de INformación and COntrol), speaking many falsehoods, and now I look at Wikipedia and other sources (which copy each other) that call the computer system CYBERSYN, when it never had that name, at least among those who designed and implemented it. The project was already operational in 1973 when the military coup came and everything was dissolved. The army entered the ECOM facilities because I had enabled the telex system, which brought the daily information of the parameters from the companies located throughout the country, to enable it to transmit the information of wheat stocks in the regions when the truckers made a national strike to leave the mills without wheat, without flour to the bakers and without bread to Santiago (among other things). I understand that it was useful because there was no shortage, but it was marked as an enemy weapon, already considered communitarian for its centralized management. With that background, the military entered and bayoneted hard drives, receiving equipment, and program boxes. Sudden death of CYBERSTRIDE and algedonia for Chile on September 11, 1973. An algedonic system is by definition an open system and therefore impossible to implement on a large scale in a free market economy, so that regardless of military action, Allende's fall automatically condemned him to death. Today, algedonia is defined in cybernetics as the messages sent by homeostatic mechanisms (which maintain biological variables within "healthy" ranges) to the central system (brain) to indicate that these mechanisms have detected a problem but are unable to correct it.
