Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the MachineMIT Press, 1961 - 212 sider Acclaimed one of the "seminal books... comparable in ultimate importance to... Galileo or Malthus or Rousseau or Mill," Cybernetics was judged by twenty-seven historians, economists, educators, and philosophers to be one of those books published during the "past four decades," which may have a substantial impact on public thought and action in the years ahead.-- Saturday Review |
Indhold
Introduction | 1 |
Newtonian and Bergsonian Time | 30 |
Groups and Statistical Mechanics | 45 |
Time Series Information and Communication | 60 |
Feedback and Oscillation | 95 |
Gestalt and Universals | 133 |
Cybernetics and Psychopathology | 144 |
Information Language and Society | 155 |
On Learning and SelfReproducing Machines | 169 |
Brain Waves and SelfOrganizing Systems | 181 |
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