17th December 2009
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The conceptions of Rosenblueth, Wiener and Bigelow related engineering and high technology to behavior of organisms on a human scale, but they were not particularly to the taste of physicists because they did not reduce description to laws of physics or to molecular building blocks; in that sense were not reductionist enough. Nor did they make contact with quantum theory.
— Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America by Steve J Heims. 1991. MIT Press. London, England 97
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