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| Cybernetics: Cybernetics is the study of systems that can control their own behavior. It is a multidisciplinary field that draws on concepts from mathematics, engineering, computer science, biology, and psychology._____________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 Cybernetics - Dictionary of Arguments
II 13 Cybernetics/Wiener: This is about machines for communication, some of which reveal the uncanny ability to imitate human behaviour and thereby possibly show the existence of enormous possibilities to replace the humans in such cases where they react relatively slowly and imperfectly; we are faced with the need to discuss the forces of these machines, insofar as they affect people, and the consequences of this new and fundamental technical revolution. >Machine learning. >Artificial intelligence, >Artificial consciousness, >Human machine communication. II 20 Cybernetics is concerned with messages and, in particular, regulatory messages. >Feedback, >Communication. II 26 Thesis: the working methods of the living individual and those of some newer communication machines run completely parallel. In both, the living being and the machine, information processing is used to have an effect on the outside world. >Information processing. In both cases, the activity carried out on the outside world and not only the intended activity is reported back to the central regulatory apparatus. II 81 Second principle of thermodynamics/cybernetics: the cybernetic form of the second principle is that information can be lost but not gained. >Second law of thermodynamics._____________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 2024-04-18