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On the Origins of Cognitive Science - The Mechanization of the Mind (Paperback)
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On the Origins of Cognitive Science - The Mechanization of the Mind (Paperback)
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An examination of the fundamental role cybernetics played in the
birth of cognitive science and the light this sheds on current
controversies. The conceptual history of cognitive science remains
for the most part unwritten. In this groundbreaking book,
Jean-Pierre Dupuy-one of the principal architects of cognitive
science in France-provides an important chapter: the legacy of
cybernetics. Contrary to popular belief, Dupuy argues, cybernetics
represented not the anthropomorphization of the machine but the
mechanization of the human. The founding fathers of
cybernetics-some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century,
including John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, and
Walter Pitts-intended to construct a materialist and mechanistic
science of mental behavior that would make it possible at last to
resolve the ancient philosophical problem of mind and matter. The
importance of cybernetics to cognitive science, Dupuy argues, lies
not in its daring conception of the human mind in terms of the
functioning of a machine but in the way the strengths and
weaknesses of the cybernetics approach can illuminate controversies
that rage today-between cognitivists and connectionists,
eliminative materialists and Wittgensteinians, functionalists and
anti-reductionists. Dupuy brings to life the intellectual
excitement that attended the birth of cognitive science sixty years
ago. He separates the promise of cybernetic ideas from the
disappointment that followed as cybernetics was rejected and
consigned to intellectual oblivion. The mechanization of the mind
has reemerged today as an all-encompassing paradigm in the
convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information
technology, and cognitive science. The tensions, contradictions,
paradoxes, and confusions Dupuy discerns in cybernetics offer a
cautionary tale for future developments in cognitive science.
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