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| Humans: Humans, or Homo sapiens, are the most intelligent and widespread species of primates. Humans are characterized by bipedalism, large brains, and capacity for articulate speech and abstract reasoning. Humans are social creatures who live in complex societies. See also Society, Reason, Thinking, Brain, Intelligence, Language._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Norbert Wiener on Humans - Dictionary of Arguments
II 94 Human/Wiener, Norbert: Thesis: the human is a message himself. The older notions of individuality were somehow linked to the concept of identity, whether it was the material substance of the animal or the mental substance of the human soul. Nowadays, we have to admit that individuality is related to the continuity of the scheme and consequently shares with it the essence of communication. Scheme/Wiener, >Communication, >Message, >Person. WienerVsAdorno. II 99 Identity/Individual/Wiener: the physical identity of an individual is not based on the identity of the substance from which it is made. The metabolism causes a much stronger metabolism than was thought possible for a long time. Cf. >Identity/Henrich._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
WienerN I Norbert Wiener Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Cambridge, MA 1965 WienerN II N. Wiener The Human Use of Human Beings (Cybernetics and Society), Boston 1952 German Edition: Mensch und Menschmaschine Frankfurt/M. 1952 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19