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Dmitry Novikov, “Cybernetics: Past to Future” (Springer Verlag, 2016)
Dmitry Novikov, “Cybernetics: Past to Future” (Springer Verlag, 2016)
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61 minutes
Released:
Feb 15, 2018
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With all of its entailed engagements with epistemology, emergence, and self-organization, cybernetics began (and arguably still is) the science of communication and control in the animal and the machine as it was coined in the subtitle of Norbert Wiener’s field defining book of 1948. While the reflexive turn of second-order...
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