Teleology which focuses instead on goal-contribution. With the objective goals of organisms being survival and inclusive fitness, Piccinini and Maley define teleological functions to be “a stable contribution by a trait (or component, activity, property) of organisms belonging to a biological population to an objective goal of those organisms.” Julian Bigelow, Arturo Rosenblueth, and Norbert Wiener have conceived of feedback mechanisms as lending a teleology to machinery. Wiener, a mathematician, coined the term 'cybernetics' to denote the study of "teleological mechanisms." Cybernetics is the study of the communication and control of regulatory feedback both in living beings and machines, and in
Wiener–Lévy theorem Wiener–Lévy theorem Wiener–Lévy theorem is a theorem in Fourier analysis, which states that a function of an absolutely convergent Fourier series has an absolutely convergent Fourier series under some conditions. The theorem was named after Norbert Wiener and Paul Lévy. Norbert Wiener first proved Wiener's 1/"f" theorem, see Wiener's theorem. It states that if has absolutely convergent Fourier series and is never zero, then its inverse also has an absolutely convergent Fourier series. Paul Levy generalized Wiener's result, showing that Let formula_1 be a absolutely convergent Fourier series with The values of formula_3 lie on a curve formula_4, and formula_5