Bionics or electrology? An introduction to the sensory information processing issue

David, Jr. E.

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“…But there must be more to these attempts than merely concocting a name, generating well-intentioned enthusiasm, speculating with the aid of brain-computer analogies, and holding symposia packed with 'preliminary' results from inconclusive experiments. A bona fide 'interdiscipline' draws its vitality from people of demonstrated achievement in the contributing disciplines, not from those who merely apply terminology of one field to another" (David 1961). The authors here fully agree.…”

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Simulating the Mind

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Zucker

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Simulating the Mind

Dietrich

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Zucker

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Where are the Cyborgs in Cybernetics?

Kline

2009

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Cyborgs — cybernetic organisms, hybrids of humans and machines — have pervaded everyday life, the military, popular culture, and the academic world since the advent of cyborg studies in the mid 1980s. They have been a recurrent theme in STS in recent decades, but there are surprisingly few cyborgs referred to in the early history of cybernetics in the USA and Britain. In this paper, I analyze the work of the early cyberneticians who researched and built cyborgs. I then use that history of cyborgs as a basis for reinterpreting the history of cybernetics by critiquing cyborg studies that give a teleological account of cybernetics, and histories of cybernetics that view it as a unitary discipline. I argue that cyborgs were a minor research area in cybernetics, usually classified under the heading of `medical cybernetics', in the USA and Britain from the publication of Wiener's Cybernetics in 1948 to the decline of cybernetics among mainstream scientists in the 1960s. During that period, cyberneticians held multiple interpretations of their field. Most of the research on cybernetics focused on the analogy between humans and machines — the main research method of cybernetics — not the fusion of humans and machines, the domain of cyborgs. Although many cyberneticians in the USA and Britain viewed cybernetics as a `universal discipline', they created contested, area-specific interpretations of their field under the metadiscourse of cybernetics.

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Bionics or electrology? An introduction to the sensory information processing issue

Cited by 3 publications

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Simulating the Mind

Simulating the Mind

Implementation and Application

Where are the Cyborgs in Cybernetics?

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