Introduzione alla cibernetica
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Tradotto da: D. Persiani
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Secondo la definizione che ne dà Norbert Wiener, che ne è unanimemente considerato il padre, la cibernetica è la disciplina che studia i processi riguardanti «la comunicazione e il controllo nell’animale e nella macchina». Muovendo da qui Wiener esamina le conseguenze delle conquiste della tecnica sull’organizzazione sociale, mettendo in evidenza che non sono né scientifici né sensati quei ragionamenti che, utilizzando i concetti e gli schemi della cibernetica, tendono a valutare il comportamento umano solo in base all’efficienza e al rendimento. Affermare che i movimenti dell’uomo possono essere studiati con gli stessi criteri con cui si studiano i movimenti di un meccanismo automatico, non rende lecito in alcun modo giudicare abnormi o inutili tutti quei comportamenti umani che non abbiano la meccanicità e la produttività dei meccanismi semplici in uso oggi, se non altro perché se si vogliono trarre conclusioni sull’uomo bisogna studiarlo nella sua complessità.
- ISBN: 8833923452
- Casa Editrice: Bollati Boringhieri
- Pagine: 240
- Data di uscita: 03-05-2012
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Thoughts on accelerated change, the singularity, neuroscience, evolution, and more from a man who refers to the last decade of the 19th century as "the nineties". This book is the forerunner to a line of fantastic (yet, at times, exaggerated) works straddling mathematics, machines, and biology, known Leggi tutto
This is the kind of book that used to be written when scientists and science writers were philosophically literate.
With its references to the (to me) unfamiliar names of J. Willard Gibbs and Ludwig Boltzmann , the opening pages of The Human Use of Human Beings had me reading Wikipedia articles and watching Youtube videos so that I could get a clearer idea of what Wiener was discussing. As I returned to Wiener's b Leggi tutto
A brilliant, wild little book from a polymath of prodigious proportions, it summarizes his seminal and baffling Cybernetics (1948) and extends an early critique of the information society. Written amid postwar froth, Wiener vaults a theory of communication and control meant to help stabilize any age Leggi tutto
Based on the title and description, I was expecting a book on the application of systems theory to the macro-analysis of society and of social change. This book contains a lot of cranky rambling that is entertaining, and occasionally even thought-provoking, on the nature of life, the universe, and e Leggi tutto
Quite frustrating to read. Wiener was a mathematician that completed his PhD at the age of 19, worked in MIT's mathematics department for 40 years, and won loads of awards etc. etc. In this book, Wiener makes his previous work Cybernetics more accessible to the "lay person". The central thesis is tha Leggi tutto
Very interesting. Provided a solid next step in my curiosity / obsession with information theory. The simultaneous breadth and depth of subject he is able to speak significantly about is astonishing, if a little chaotic at times. Skipped a few pages toward the end that felt too boring and detailed.
The individual technical details have dated a little, hence the docked star -- chess computers now routinely beat human players, for one. I also felt the book hopscotches around a little too much -- there isn't as much of a sense of a through-line with all the arguments, so it feels more like an ant Leggi tutto
"Nauka je nacin zivota koji moze da cveta samo ako je ljudima data sloboda da imaju veru. Vera koju sledimo po naredjenju nametnutom spolja nije vera, a zajednica koja se oslanja na takvu pseudoveru osudjena je da sebe unisti zbog paralize koju namece nedostatak zdravog procvata nauke."
Had to read this for grad school. If you like listening to someone lecture you on all kinds of things you know nothing about and essentially just feeling like they are far more intellectual than you are, maybe this is the book for you.
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