Lecture 17: Evolution and Cybernetics

author: James Paradis, Writing and Humanistic Studies, Center for Future Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
recorded by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
published: Dec. 19, 2012,   recorded: December 2010,   views: 2567
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Topics: Evolution and Cybernetics

Norbert Wiener, the golem, and the problem of control The key issue of cybernetics Evolution as Phylogenetic Learning Biological versus machine reproduction, Sorcery versus science An increasingly automated world

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