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Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind (Hardcover)
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Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Mind
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This book, published in 1976, presents an entirely original
approach to the subject of the mind-body problem, examining it in
terms of the conceptual links between the physical sciences and the
sciences of human behaviour. It is based on the cybernetic concepts
of information and feedback and on the related concepts of
thermodynamic and communication-theoretic entropy. The foundation
of the approach is the theme of continuity between evolution,
learning and human consciousness. The author defines life as a
process of energy exchange between organism and environment, and
evolution as a feedback process maintaining equilibrium between
environment and reproductive group. He demonstrates that closely
related feedback processes on the levels of the behaving organism
and of the organism's nervous system constitute the phenomena of
learning and consciousness respectively. He analyses language as an
expedient for extending human information-processing and control
capacities beyond those provided by one's own nervous system, and
shows reason to be a mode of processing information in the form of
concepts removed from immediate stimulus control. The last chapter
touches on colour vision, pleasure and pain, intentionality,
self-awareness and other subjective phenomena. Of special interest
to the communication theorist and philosopher, this study is also
of interest to psychologists and anyone interested in the
connection between the physical and life sciences.
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