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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798129203321

Titolo

Cybernetics : the Macy Conferences 1946-1953 : the complete transactions / / edited by Claus Pias

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zurich, [Switzerland] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : diaphanes, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-03734-607-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (738 p.)

Collana

Qu

Disciplina

003.5

Soggetti

Cybernetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Editorial Note; The Age of Cybernetics / Claus Pias; 1949; Participants; Introductory Discussion; The Psychological Moment in Perception / John Stroud; The Neurotic Potential and Human Adaptation / Lawrence S. Kubie; Quantum Mechanical Theory of Memory / Heinz von Foerster; Possible Mechanisms of Recall and Recognition; Sensory Prosthesises / Norbert Wiener; References ; 1950; Participants; Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program / Frank Fremont-Smith; Introductory Remarks / Warren S. McCulloch

Some of the Problems Concerning Digital Notions in the Central Nervous System / Ralph W. GerardThe Manner in Which and Extent to Which Speech Can Be Distorted and Remain Intelligible / J. C. R. Licklider; The Redundancy of English / Claude E. Shannon; Experience in Learning Primitive Languages Through the Use of Learning High Level Linguistic Abstractions / Margaret Mead; On the Development of Word Meanings / Heinz Werner; The Development of Language in Early Childhood / John Stroud; The Relationship of Symbolic Function in Language Formation and in Neurosis / Lawrence S. Kubie

Appendix I: Body Symbolization and Development of Language / Lawrence S. KubieAppendix II: References; 1951; Participants; Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program; A Note by the Editors; Communication Patterns in Problem-Solving Groups / Alex Bavelas; Communication Between Men: The Meaning of Language / Ivor A.



Richards; Communication Between Sane and Insane: Hypnosis / Lawrence S. Kubie; Communication Between Animals / Herbert G. Birch; Presentation of a Maze-Solving Machine / Claude Shannon; In Search of Basic Symbols / Donald M. Mac Kay

Appendix I: The Nomenclature of Information Theory / Donald M. Mac KayExplanatory Glossary; Alphabetical Index of Terms Used in Information Theory and Related Communication Theory; Appendix II: References; 1952; Participants; Josiah Macy, Jr. FoundationConference Program; A Note by the Editors; The Position of Humor in Human Communication / Gregory Bateson; The Place of Emotions in the Feedback Concept / Lawrence S. Kubie; Homeostasis / W. Ross Ashby; Discrimination and Learning in Octopus / J. Z. Young; Reduction of the Number of Possible Boolean Functions / John R. Bowman

Central Excitation and Inhibition / Ralph W. GerardMechanical Chess Player / W. Ross Ashby; Turbulence as Random Stimulation of Sense Organs / G. Evelyn Hutchinson; Investigations on Synaptic Transmission / Walter Pitts; Feedback Mechanism in Cellular Biology / Henry Quastler; Appendix I: References; 1953; Participants; Foreword; The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program; Introductory Remarks / Warren S. Mc Culloch; Studies on Activity of the Brain / W. Grey-Walter; Semantic Information and its Measures / Yehoshua Bar-Hillel; Meaning in Language and How it is Acquired / Yuen Ren Chao

Appendix I: Summary of the Points of Agreement Reached in the Previous Nine Conferences on Cybernetics / Warren S. Mc Culloch