29th December 2009
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In 1943 Wiener, Rosenblueth, and Bigelow published a joint article, in which they suggested that purposeful human behavior was governed by the same feedback mechanism that was employed in servomechanisms…Both human and machine operation could be purposeful, if the feedback principle was involved. By knowing how organisms and machines could achieve their goals by means of the derministic feedback mechanism, Wiener, Rosenblueth and Bigelow undermined the philosophical oppositions between teleology and determinism, between voluntary act and mechanical actions and ultimately between men and machines.
— From Newspeak to Cyberspeak by Slava Gerovitch pg62
