Reading 4 Week 5

AI & Cybernetics, Paul Pangaro

·      Cybernetics is about having a goal and then taking action to achieve said goal.  Feedback is what you get in order to know whether or not you have achieved your goal.

·      Cybernetics came from the Latin word Govern, which Plato used to describe the government,

·      Norbert Weiner used the term cybernetics to describe: electrical engineering, mathematics, biology, neurophysiology, anthropology and psychology.

·      Cybernetics is referred to as applied epistemology, because it is limited to what we can know

·      “They quote Maturana: “Learning is not a process of accumulation of representations of the environment; it is a continuous process of transformation of behavior through continuous change in the capacity of the nervous system to synthesize it. Recall does not depend on the indefinite retention of a structural invariant that represents an entity (an idea, image or symbol),but on the functional ability of the system to create, when certain recurrent demands are given, a behavior that satisfies the recurrent demands or that the observer would class as a reenacting of aprevious one.” (Maturana 1980)

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