14th December 2009
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[Warren] McCulloch as ‘chronic chairman’ of the series of conferences was in a position to control to a certain extent who would be invited, who would be asked to present a paper, and who would be given the floor when the discussion got heated. The adaptation of the cyberneticians’ ideas to the human sciences, however, was contingent on the response and prior outlook of groups and individuals within those fields.
— Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America by Steve J Heims. 1991. MIT Press. London, England
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