The Attenuating Function of Myth in Human Understanding
提出神话在人类与环境的系统中扮演多样性衰减器的角色，调节高多样性环境与低多样性监控之间的关系，并探讨了古典神话与现代理解方式的联系，指出技术时代过度衰减可能导致严重功能失调。
Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety demands the insertion of a variety attenuator in any homeostatic system to regulate the relationship between the high variety environment and the low variety monitor. We argue that, in the system which is constituted by man and his environment, this function is performed by myth, i.e., that myth is a variety attenuator. The nature of the concept of myth is explored, and a relationship traced between the functions of classical myth and contemporary modes of understanding. Some implications follow, in particular, that serious dysfunctions inevitably occur as a result of overattenuation where the environmental variety increases at a greater rate than man's ability to understand it, as in the present technological age.