1st Edition

Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind

By Kenneth Sayre Copyright 1976
282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

This book, published in 1976, presents an entirely original approach to the subject of the mind-body problem, examining it in terms of the conceptual links between the physical sciences and the sciences of human behaviour. It is based on the cybernetic concepts of information and feedback and on the related concepts of thermodynamic and communication-theoretic entropy. The foundation of the... Read more

Preface  Part 1: The Mind-Body Problem  1. Introduction  Part 2: Fundamentals  2. Information  3. Entropy  4. Feedback  5. Causation  Part 3: Organism and Environment  6. Life  7. Evolution  8. Learning  9. Consciousness  Part 4: Mentality  10. Society  11. Language  12. Reason  13. Subjectivity

Biography

Sayre, Kenneth