No.10249
Why was cybernetics a dead end? Too abstract? Or perhaps it's a shallow subject that was quickly exhausted?
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No.10257
It's very much alive, it just goes under other names (cognitive ecology, embodied cognition and so on).
https://sci-hub.cc/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25164051
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No.10259
>>10257
>cognitive ecology, embodied cognition
Those are very specific, and take a restrictive view of what cognition is…that takes away the only interesting thing about cybernetics.
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No.10260
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No.10381
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/14/ssc-journal-club-mental-disorders-as-networks/
the mental networks as disorders paper uses feedback loops– one of the characteristic ideas of cybernetics
you find a lot of the ideas from cybernetics hiding today under labels such as systems theory, complex systems, complex adaptive systems, cocks, and so on.
a complex systems phd student on lw wrote a concise overview on a bunch of this stuff a while ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/mxb/systems_theory_terms/
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