Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine.

By F. H. Adler. 1949

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Counterfactual reasoning and learning systems: the example of computational advertising (2012, background): “However, we no longer have to interpret the variable values as physical quantities: the equations simply describe the flow of information in the causal model (Wiener, 1948).”
Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: Associations, explanations, and implications. (2009, methodology): “In Carver and Scheier's (1998) model of self-regulation, which was informed by cybernetic theory (e.g., Wiener, 1948), self-control is conceptualized as a dynamical process by which people bring their behavior into conformity with a standard through the operation of feedback loops consisting of…”
The Complexity Era in Economics (2011, background): “…of ‘chaoplexity’ by Horgan (1997) to argue that this broad tent view contains four successive approaches based on nonlinear dynamics:7 cybernetics (Wiener, 1948), catastrophe theory (Thom, 1975), chaos theory (Dechert, 1996), and ‘small tent’ (or heterogeneous interacting agent-based)…”
Causal Analysis of Agent Behavior for AI Safety (2021, background): “The analysis of black-box behavior dates back to the beginnings of electronic circuit theory (Cauer, 1954) and was first formalized in cybernetics (Wiener, 1948; Ashby, 1961), which stressed the importance of manipulations in order to investigate the mechanisms of cybernetic systems.”
Hierarchical Active Inference: A Theory of Motivated Control (2018, background): “In addition to the control/motivation dichotomy, a second distinction is based on the level of complexity of a contextual representation [17 – 20].”
Feedback for physicists: A tutorial essay on control (2005, background): “From the beginnings of control theory, there have been attempts to make connections to biological systems (Wiener, 1961).”
Exploring the Mechanisms of Self-Control Improvement (2014, background): “Cybernetics is the scientific study of control (Wiener, 1948).”
Synchronization in complex networks (2008, background): “…(2003a) summarizes what can be considered the beginning of the modern quest to explain the synchronization of a population of interacting units: ”Wiener (1948) posed a problem in his book Cybernetics: How is it that thousands of neurons or fireflies or crickets can suddenly fall into step with…”
THE EXPLOIT: A THEORY OF NETWORKS (2007, background): “6 Peter Swirski, “Stanisław Lem: A Stranger in a Strange Land,” in Swirski, A Stanisław Lem Reader, 6.”
Emotion Regulation: Current Status and Future Prospects (2015, unknown): “In Figure 7A, I present a highly schematized valuation system (see Carver & Scheier, 1982, 2013; Magen & Gross, 2010; Miller, Galanter, & Pribram, 1960; Powers, Clark, & McFarland, 1960a, 1960b; Rangel et al., 2008; Wiener, 1948).”
Synchronous failure: the emerging causal architecture of global crisis (2015, background): “Such theories, in turn, trace their origin to at least three distinct lines of previous thought (Homer-Dixon 2006): the functionalist sociology of Émile Durkheim (1951) and Talcott Parsons (1951), the systems theory and cybernetics pioneered by Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1950) and Norbert Wiener (1961)”
How the body shapes the way we think - a new view on intelligence (2006, background): “in the 1940s on control and communication in animal and machine, the commonalities of these worlds—in particular the idea of feedback loops—were identified (Wiener, 1948).”
Computation vs. Information Processing: Why Their Difference Matters to Cognitive Science (2010, background): “By contrast, the notion of information came into cognitive science from control engineering (Rosenblueth et al., 1943; Wiener, 1948) and communication engineering (Shannon, 1948).”
Situation Awareness (2015, methodology): “…and in fact, the question has broadened beyond a focus on individual people to include speculations about the potential for thinking machines (e.g., Newell & Simon, 1972; Wiener, 1948; Winograd & Flores, 1986) and for sensemaking in sociotechnical organizations (e.g., Hutchins, 1995a; Weick, 1995).”