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Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety is a fundamental principle of systems theory, formulated in the mid-20th century by British cyberneticist and psychiatrist W. Ross Ashby. This law states that for a system to respond effectively to environmental variety, its regulatory mechanism must possess at least as much internal variety as the environment it seeks to regulate. Ashby’s Law is expressed in systems theory as: “A system must be able to generate responses as varied as the environmental conditions