The Brain And Cybernetics
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Author | : Andrew Pickering |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226667928 |
Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. The Cybernetic Brain explores a largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Stafford Beer, and Gordon Pask, and their singular work in a dazzling array of fields. Psychiatry, engineering, management, politics, music, architecture, education, tantric yoga, the Beats, and the sixties counterculture all come into play as Pickering follows the history of cybernetics’ impact on the world, from contemporary robotics and complexity theory to the Chilean economy under Salvador Allende. What underpins this fascinating history, Pickering contends, is a shared but unconventional vision of the world as ultimately unknowable, a place where genuine novelty is always emerging. And thus, Pickering avers, the history of cybernetics provides us with an imaginative model of open-ended experimentation in stark opposition to the modern urge to achieve domination over nature and each other.
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Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1965-01-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0080861415 |
Cybernetics of the Nervous system
Author | : Michael A. Arbib |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Computers |
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Author | : Anatoliĭ Viktorovich Napalkov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Cybernetics |
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Author | : Maxwell Maltz |
Publisher | : Souvenir Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2022-09-08 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1800812930 |
The landmark self-help bestseller that has inspired and enhanced the lives of more than 30 million readers. In this updated edition, with a new introduction and editorial commentary by Matt Furey, president of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation, the original 1960 text has been annotated and amplified to make Maxwell Maltz's message even more relevant for the contemporary reader. Maltz was the first researcher and author to explain how the self-image (a term he popularized) has complete control over an individual's ability to achieve, or fail to achieve, any goal. He developed techniques for improving and managing self-image visualization, mental rehearsal and relaxation which have informed and inspired countless motivational gurus, sports psychologists, and self-help practitioners for more than sixty years. Rooted in solid science, the classic teachings in Psycho-Cybernetics continue to provide a prescription for thinking and acting that lead to life-enhancing, quantifiable results.
Author | : F. H. George |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1483150232 |
The Brain as a Computer, Second Edition is a 14-chapter book that outlines the principles of cybernetics in relation to behavior, from the perspective of experimental psychology and neurophysiology. This book begins by describing the main ideas of cybernetics. Subsequent chapters explore cybernetic models, with emphasis on finite automata, and particularly finite automata in logical net form, which seem especially useful to the modeling of behavior. Other chapters summarize learning theory, neurological matters, thinking, perception, and artificial intelligence.
Author | : Steve J. Heims |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : |
This is the engaging story of a moment of transformation in the human sciences, a detailed account of a remarkable group of people who met regularly to explore the possibility of using scientific ideas that had emerged in the war years as a basis for interdisciplinary alliances.
Author | : Michael Anthony Arbib |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1972* |
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Author | : Norbert Wiener |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0262537842 |
A classic and influential work that laid the theoretical foundations for information theory and a timely text for contemporary informations theorists and practitioners. With the influential book Cybernetics, first published in 1948, Norbert Wiener laid the theoretical foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics, the study of controlling the flow of information in systems with feedback loops, be they biological, mechanical, cognitive, or social. At the core of Wiener's theory is the message (information), sent and responded to (feedback); the functionality of a machine, organism, or society depends on the quality of messages. Information corrupted by noise prevents homeostasis, or equilibrium. And yet Cybernetics is as philosophical as it is technical, with the first chapter devoted to Newtonian and Bergsonian time and the philosophical mixed with the technical throughout. This book brings the 1961 second edition back into print, with new forewords by Doug Hill and Sanjoy Mitter. Contemporary readers of Cybernetics will marvel at Wiener's prescience—his warnings against “noise,” his disdain for “hucksters” and “gadget worshipers,” and his view of the mass media as the single greatest anti-homeostatic force in society. This edition of Cybernetics gives a new generation access to a classic text.
Author | : Douglas Stanley-Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Psychology |
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