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The Pigeon in the Machine. The Concept of Control in Behaviorism and Cybernetics

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dc.contributor.editorPasquinelli, Matteo
dc.creatorTeixeira Pinto, Ana
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-25T13:50:10Z
dc.date.available2018-09-25T13:50:10Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractBehaviorism, like cybernetics, is based on a recursive (feedback) model, known in biology as reinforcement. Skinner’s description of operant behavior in animals is similar to Wiener’s description of information loops. Behaviorism and cybernetics have often shared more than an uncanny affinity: during World War II, both Wiener and Skinner worked on research projects for the U.S. military. While Wiener was attempting to develop his Anti-Aircraft Predictor (a machine that was supposed to anticipate the trajectory of enemy planes), Skinner was trying to develop a pigeon-guided missile. This essay retraces the social and political history of behaviorism, cybernetics, and the concepts of entropy and order in the life sciences.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/1249
dc.identifier.isbnisbn:978-3-95796-066-5
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3012
dc.languageeng
dc.publishermeson press
dc.publisher.placeLüneburg
dc.relation.isPartOfisbn:978-3-95796-066-5
dc.relation.isPartOfdoi:http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/685
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectInformationstechnologiede
dc.subjectKybernetikde
dc.subjectWeltkrieg <1939-1945>de
dc.subject.ddcddc:150
dc.titleThe Pigeon in the Machine. The Concept of Control in Behaviorism and Cyberneticsde
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationTeixeira Pinto, Ana (2015): The Pigeon in the Machine. The Concept of Control in Behaviorism and Cybernetics. In: Matteo Pasquinelli (Hg.): Alleys of Your Mind. Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas. Lüneburg: meson press, 23-34. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/1249.
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local.source.booktitleAlleys of Your Mind. Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas
local.source.epage34
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