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er straddled as those tools did from each other. Wiener was a giant of the earlier era and built on the tools developed since the time of Newton and Leibniz to describe and analyze continuous processes in the physical world. In 1948 he published Cybernetics, a word he coined to describe the science of com
whip that lashes us.” Mind, Thinking, Intelligence Among the reasons we don’t hear much about “Cybernetics” today, two are central: First, although Zhe Human Use of Human Beings was considered an important book in its time, it ran counter to the aspirations of many of Wiener’s colleagues, including John von Neumann and Claude
nd systems thinking that had been around since the Enlightenment (boosted by the Industrial Revolution). The names in this lineage include Descartes, Leibniz, Sadi Carnot, Clausius, Maxwell, and Watt. Wiener’s coinage nonetheless had profound cultural effects.4”7 The ubiquity today of the prefix “cyber-” c
ht tomorrow’s artificial intelligence be different if practitioners were to re-invest in Wiener’s guiding vision of “information”? When Wiener wrote Zhe Human Use of Human Beings, his experiences of war-related research, and of what struck him as the moral ambiguities of intellectual life amid the military-industrial complex,
er straddled as those tools did from each other. Wiener was a giant of the earlier era and built on the tools developed since the time of Newton and Leibniz to describe and analyze continuous processes in the physical world. In 1948 he published Cybernetics, a word he coined to describe the science of com
whip that lashes us.” Mind, Thinking, Intelligence Among the reasons we don’t hear much about “Cybernetics” today, two are central: First, although Zhe Human Use of Human Beings was considered an important book in its time, it ran counter to the aspirations of many of Wiener’s colleagues, including John von Neumann and Claude
nd systems thinking that had been around since the Enlightenment (boosted by the Industrial Revolution). The names in this lineage include Descartes, Leibniz, Sadi Carnot, Clausius, Maxwell, and Watt. Wiener’s coinage nonetheless had profound cultural effects.4”7 The ubiquity today of the prefix “cyber-” c
ht tomorrow’s artificial intelligence be different if practitioners were to re-invest in Wiener’s guiding vision of “information”? When Wiener wrote Zhe Human Use of Human Beings, his experiences of war-related research, and of what struck him as the moral ambiguities of intellectual life amid the military-industrial complex,
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