Cybernetics: Second Edition: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

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2013 Reprint of 1961 Second Edition. Full facsimile of the unique edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Acclaimed some of the “seminal books… comparable in ultimate importance to… Galileo or Malthus or Rousseau or Mill”, “Cybernetics” used to be judged by twenty-seven historians, economists, educators, and philosophers to be a kind of books published right through the “past four decades,” which could have a substantial have an effect on on public thought and action within the years ahead.” — Saturday Review. Cybernetics used to be defined within the mid 20th century by Norbert Wiener as “the scientific study of keep watch over and communication within the animal and the machine.” Fields of research which have influenced or been influenced by cybernetics include game theory, system theory (a mathematical counterpart to cybernetics), perceptual keep watch over theory, sociology, psychology (especially neuropsychology, behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology), philosophy, architecture, and organizational theory. Contents: Part one : original edition – Newtonian and Bergsonian time – Groups and statistical mechanics – Time series, information, and communication – Feedback and oscillation – Computing machines and nervous system – Gestalt and universals – Cybernetics and psychopathology – Information, language, and society – Part two : supplement chapters – On learning and self – reproducing machines – Brain waves and self – organizing systems.

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