Natural Cybernetics

This paper systematically proposes the concept of “Natural Control Theory,” scientifically formalizing the generative and regulatory philosophy of the Lao-Yang Genesis Cosmology and constructing a theoretical framework for civilization governance and crisis resolution. The paper points out that the cosmic order is maintained in a stable state through structural self-organization, energy conservation, negative feedback loops, and entropy constraints, and that the long-term stability of civilization also relies on governance models embedded within natural control structures. Human-centered control and technologically intensified control civilizations, over the long term, violate natural control laws, resulting in positive feedback accumulation, systemic collapse, and civilizational crises. This study proposes the scientific principles of a naturally controlled civilization: structure precedence, energy boundaries, negative feedback priority, and entropy constraints, and operationalizes them within social sciences and institutional design. Through negative-feedback governance structures, energy-embedded economic models, automatic correction mechanisms, self-organizing incentives, and ecosystem-based governance, civilization can transition from artificial control to natural control. The paper further proposes a three-stage evolutionary model of civilization—human-centered control, technology-intensified control, and natural-embedded civilization—and analyzes the characteristics of the third stage in detail, including distributed networks, ecological-economic embedding, long-cycle decision-making, and adaptive institutions. Finally, the paper summarizes the theoretical innovations of Natural Control Theory: the integration of philosophy and cybernetics, models of civilizational crises, negative-feedback governance structures, and systematized civilizational transition pathways, providing a scientific-philosophical foundation for modern civilization governance, social institutional design, and sustainable development.