Cybernetics and Soviet Jurisprudence

Soviet Cybernetics Sciences , , 1960 and Computer

The author visited the Soviet Union in June and July, 1960 to at tend the First Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) as an official American delegate and to meet with certain scientists in psychology, physiology, and the cornputer sciences, as well as visit some Russian research institutions doing work in these areas. In this article Soviet research in cybernetic...

Cybernetics and Its Development in the Soviet Union

Cybernetics: Cybernetics and the Theory of Knowledge

Love-hate for man-machine metaphors in Soviet physiology: from Pavlov to "physiological cybernetics".

This article reinterprets the debate between orthodox followers of the Pavlovian reflex theory and Soviet "cybernetic physiologists" in the 1950s and 60s as a clash of opposing man-machine metaphors. While both sides accused each other of "mechanistic," reductionist methodology, they did not see anything "mechanistic" about their own central metaphors: the telephone switchboard metaphor for ner...

Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics

I. Historical Development of Cybernetics.......................................................1 A. Origins.....................................................................................1 B. Second Order Cybernetics............................................................2 C. Cybernetics Today.....................................................................4 II. Relational Concepts...