Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the MachineAcclaimed 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 |
Contents
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 |
Other editions - View all
Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine ... Norbert Wiener Limited preview - 2019 |
Cybernetics: Or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the MacHine Norbert Wiener No preview available - 2013 |
Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Norbert Wiener No preview available - 2008 |
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