Exploring Cybernetics
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Exploring Cybernetics
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Author : Sabina Jeschke
language : de
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Release Date : 2015-12-04
Exploring Cybernetics written by Sabina Jeschke and has been published by Springer-Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-04 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes befassen sich mit zentralen Themen der Kybernetik: Was ist Kybernetik überhaupt? Wie können wir sie nutzen und wo können wir sie einsetzen? Die Autoren zeigen, dass unser Digitalzeitalter von umfassenden technologischen Neuerungen, komplexer Vernetzung und schnellen Innovationszyklen gekennzeichnet ist, die sich klassischen Beschreibungsmodellen und traditionellen Regelungsmechanismen entziehen. Immer vielfältiger interagierende Strukturen erfordern neue Methoden, um diese Komplexität zu beschreiben und zu gestalten. Hochkarätige WissenschaftlerInnen verschiedenster Fachgebiete erläutern die Kybernetik aus Sicht ihrer jeweiligen Disziplin.
Interrogating The Cybernetic Imaginary
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Author : Sheryl Noreen Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Release Date : 1999
Interrogating The Cybernetic Imaginary written by Sheryl Noreen Hamilton and has been published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Artificial intelligence categories.
This cultural history explores the coming into being of an emergent cultural sensibility of the computer age, the cybernetic imaginary. Articulated through four events which take place in public discourse--the thinking machine, the game, the future, and information--the analysis suggests that it is in the immediate postwar period that many of the taken-for-granted tropes, metaphors, and assumptions of current cyberculture are presented, negotiated, and normalized. This analysis is conducted in print mass media texts exploring cybernetics, computing machines and their interaction, in the period of 1944-1959. The material includes popular magazines, mass market non-fiction, fiction, and trade journals. The thinking machine as a discursive event establishes a fundamental, functional equivalence between humans and computing machines, permitting, indeed requiring, the replacement of human mental labour with machines. The game rewrites the notion of what it means to be intelligent, locating valuable knowledge firmly within a model of rationalism. Science and mathematics becomes privileged as the knowledges through which to take decisions in all forms of social organization. The event of the future marks the future as a knowable domain, and a properly knowable domain, marginalizing both the present and the past as relevant to knowledge. This confirms a teleological understanding of history, notions of technological progress, and the valuation of speed. Finally, information is redefined in this period as the successful transfer of valuable information, rather than about meaning. Communication is thus reduced to a functional, quantitative measurement. Information is offered as a universal measure of knowledge, and information theory becomes a universal methodology. Yet none of these outcomes is preordained when the computing machine is introduced to the American public after World War II. It is in the process of their negotiation in the public domain that the cybernetic imaginary is produced. The cybernetic imaginary as a set of shared cultural assumptions has significant social power implications for how we understand the computer and our selves to this day--it marks our age as a society of control.
An Introduction To Cybernetics
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Author : William Ross Ashby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-04
An Introduction To Cybernetics written by William Ross Ashby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04 with categories.
Cybernetic Psychology And Mental Health
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Author : Timothy J. Beck
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-27
Cybernetic Psychology And Mental Health written by Timothy J. Beck and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-27 with Psychology categories.
This book explores the cultural importance of cybernetic technologies and their relationship to human experience through a critical theoretical lens. Bringing several often-marginalized histories of cybernetics, psychology, and mental health into dialogue with one another, Beck questions common assumptions about human life such as that our minds operate as information processing machines and our neurons communicate with one another. Rather than suggest that such ideas are either right or wrong, however, this book analyzes how and why we have come to frame questions about ourselves in these ways, as if our brains were our own personal computers. Here, the rationality underlying information theories in psychology is followed to its logical conclusion, only to find it circles back to where it began: engineered methods of human control. After tracing a series of recent developments in this vein across fields related to mental health, Beck highlights emerging psychosocial alternatives by incorporating recent work of scholars and activists who have already begun creating collective support networks in radical ways. Their work overlaps fruitfully with ideas from those, including Gilbert Simondon and Fernand Deligny, who foresaw many of the current problems with how information theories have been coupled with psychology and mental health care. This book is fascinating reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students across psychology, mental health programs, and digital media studies, and academics and researchers with a theoretical interest in the philosophy of technology. It’s also an interesting resource for professionals with a practical interest in organizing care services under the data-driven imperatives of contemporary capitalism.
A Transdisciplinary Introduction To The World Of Cybernetics
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Author : E. W. Udo Küppers
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-11-25
A Transdisciplinary Introduction To The World Of Cybernetics written by E. W. Udo Küppers and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-25 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This introduction to the world of cybernetics provides the basics and discusses the most important thought leaders, models as well as theories. Practical examples from the fields of biology, ecology, technology, society, and politics are used to illustrate the theoretical material. Questions at the end of the chapters stimulate reflection, and the author does not owe the answers. A central theme in all cybernetic considerations and a guiding theme of the book are information exchange and communication.
Cybernetics Of Art
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Author : M. J. Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-07-31
Cybernetics Of Art written by M. J. Rosenberg and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-31 with Art categories.
First published in 1983, Cybernetics of Art uses the methodology and concepts of cybernetics to explore art and the creative process. Part I surveys the domain that includes both science and the arts, attempting to understand their differing viewpoints- and the basis of conflicts between them. Art is approached as a method of knowledge aimed at knowledge of experience per se (as distinct from knowledge derived through experience). Part II poses the problem of notionally constructing an authorship machine and develops the technical argument by exploring the question of the kind of machine it would need to be. Part III examines the products of such a machine with a view to finding criteria for distinguishing those that might be called art. An extended, non-technical commentary accompanies the text throughout, with the dual aim of comparing the book’s technical conclusions with ideas expressed by critiques and practicing artists and assisting readers unfamiliar with the information sciences in following the argument. In a world dominated by artificial intelligence, this interdisciplinary book will be useful for scholars and researchers of cybernetics, art, and humanities and social sciences in general.
Networks And Systems In Cybernetics
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Author : Radek Silhavy
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2023-07-28
Networks And Systems In Cybernetics written by Radek Silhavy and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-28 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The Networks and Systems in Cybernetics section continues to be a highly relevant and rapidly evolving area of research, encompassing modern advancements in informatics and cybernetics within network and system contexts. This field is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge technologies that can tackle complex challenges and improve various aspects of our lives. The latest research in this field is featured in this book, which provides a comprehensive overview of recent methods, algorithms, and designs. The book comprises the refereed proceedings of the Cybernetics Perspectives in Systems session of the 12th Computer Science Online Conference 2023 (CSOC 2023), which was held online in April 2023. The book offers a unique opportunity to explore the latest advances in cybernetics and informatics and their applications in a range of domains. It brings together experts from various disciplines to share their insights and collaborate on research that can shape the future of our world. One of the key themes of this section is the application of cybernetics in intelligent systems. This area has significant potential to revolutionize a range of industries. Researchers are exploring how cybernetic principles can be used to create intelligent systems that can learn, adapt, and optimize their performance over time.
The Nature Of The Machine And The Collapse Of Cybernetics
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Author : Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-07-03
The Nature Of The Machine And The Collapse Of Cybernetics written by Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-03 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a philosophical exploration of the theoretical causes behind the collapse of classical cybernetics, as well as the lesson that this episode can provide to current emergent technologies. Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson advances the idea that the cybernetic understanding of the nature of a machine entails ontological and epistemological consequences that created both material and theoretical conundrums. However, he proposes that given our current state of materials research, scientific practices, and research tools, there might be a way for cybernetics to flourish this time. The book starts with a historical and theoretical articulation of cybernetics in order to proceed with a philosophical explanation of its collapse—emphasizing the work of Alan Turing, Ross Ashby and John von Neumann. Subsequently, Malapi-Nelson unveils the common metaphysical signature shared between cybernetics and emergent technologies, identifying this signature as transhumanist in nature. Finally, avenues of research that may allow these disruptive technologies to circumvent the cybernetic fate are indicated. It is proposed that emerging technologies ultimately entail an affirmation of humanity.
New Horizons For Second Order Cybernetics
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Author : Muller Karl H
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2017-09-15
New Horizons For Second Order Cybernetics written by Muller Karl H and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In almost 60 articles this book reviews the current state of second-order cybernetics and investigates which new research methods second-order cybernetics can offer to tackle wicked problems in science and in society. The contributions explore its application to both scientific fields (such as mathematics, psychology and consciousness research) and non-scientific ones (such as design theory and theater science). The book uses a pluralistic, multifaceted approach to discuss these applications: Each main article is accompanied by several commentaries and author responses, which together allow the reader to discover further perspectives than in the original article alone. This procedure shows that second-order cybernetics is already on its way to becoming an idea shared by many researchers in a variety of disciplines. Contents: Prologue: A Brief History of (Second-Order) Cybernetics (Louis H Kauffman & Stuart A Umpleb)Mapping the Varieties of Second-Order Cybernetics (Karl H Müller & Alexander Riegle)Part I: Exploring Second-Order Cybernetics and Its Fivefold Agenda: Second-Order Cybernetics as a Fundamental Revolution in Science (Stuart A Umpleby)Obstacles and Opportunities in the Future of Second-Order Cybernetics and Other Compatible Methods (Allenna Leonard)Connecting Second-Order Cybernetics' Revolution with Genetic Epistemology (Gastón Becerra)Shed the Name to Find Second-Order Success: Renaming Second-Order Cybernetics to Rescue its Essence (Michael R Lissack)Beware False Dichotomies (Peter A Cariani)Second-Order Cybernetics Needs a Unifying Methodology (Thomas R Flanagan)Viva the Fundamental Revolution! Confessions of a Case Writer (T Grandon Gill)Author's Response: Struggling to Define an Identity for Second-Order Cybernetics (Stuart A Umpleby)Cybernetics, Reflexivity and Second-Order Science (Louis H Kauffman)Remarks From a Continental Philosophy Point of View (Tatjana Schönwälder-Kuntze)Finally Understanding Eigenforms (Michael R Lissack)Eigenforms, Coherence, and the Imaginal (Arthur M Collings)Conserving the Disposition for Wonder (Kathleen Forsythe)Author's Response: Distinction, Eigenform and the Epistemology of the Imagination (Louis H Kauffman)Cybernetic Foundations for Psychology (Bernard Scott)Wielding the Cybernetic Scythe in the Blunting Undergrowth of Psychological Confusion (Vincent Kenny)To What Extent Can Second-Order Cybernetics Be a Foundation for Psychology? (Marcelo Arnold-Cathalifaud & Daniela Thumala-Dockendorff)The Importance — and the Difficulty — of Moving Beyond Linear Causality (Robert J Martin)Obstacles to Cybernetics Becoming a Conceptual Framework and Metanarrative in the Psychologies (Philip Baron)The Social and the Psychological: Conceptual Cybernetic Unification vs Disciplinary Analysis? (Eva Buchinger)Second Thoughts on Cybernetic Unifications (Tilia Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes)Cybernetics and Synergetics as Foundations for Complex Approach Towards Complexities of Life (Lea Šugman Bohinc)Author's Response: On Becoming and Being a Cybernetician (Bernard Scott)Consciousness as Self-Description in Differences (Diana Gasparyan)On the Too Often Overlooked Complexity of the Tension between Subject and Object (Yochai Ataria)Where Is Consciousness? (Urban Kordeš)Theorizing Agents: Their Games, Hermeneutical Tools and Epistemic Resources (Konstantin Pavlov-Pinus)How
Exploring Cultures Through Knowledge Cybernetics
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Author : Maurice Yolles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Exploring Cultures Through Knowledge Cybernetics written by Maurice Yolles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
A new way of representing the attributes of culture is presented that enables other approached like those of Hofstede and of Schwartz to be subsumed within it. It arises from the theory of knowledge cybernetics, principally concerned with the development of agents like autonomous social collectives that survive through knowledge and knowledge processes. Boje has introduced the notion of antenarrative that can be connected with narrative. Their interconnectedness in actual processes of social communication demonstrates parallel coexistence of modernist and postmodernist paradigms. The theory is constructed as a metaphor, but it will be argued that this still has significance. In developing a theory of culture we shall also explore aspects of social psychology, and explain how culture can be associated with different types of mentality. The theory emerges as part of the new field of knowledge cybernetics.
