Cybernetics and the human sciences

Schizophrenic Techniques: Cybernetics, the Human Sciences, and the Double Bind

In 1969 in a symposium on schizophrenia and the double bind at the National Institute of Mental Health, the cybernetician and ethnographer Gregory Bateson stood before an audience of some of the most prominent psychiatrists and psychologists in the world and proceeded to discuss the mental life of animals. This was not a question of expertise; Bateson was known as the inventor of the term “doub...

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: Cybernetics and the Theory of Knowledge

The human use of human beings - cybernetics and society

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this the human use of human beings cybernetics and society, how can you bargain with the thi...

The cybernetics of design and the design of cybernetics

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to connect two discourses, the discourse of cybernetics and that of