Cybernetics Within Us

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Front Cover Title Page AUTHOR’S PREFACE BY WAY OF AN INTRODUCTION CONTENTS I. DISEASES OF MEN AND “DISEASES” OF MACHINES Cybernetics and the Heart Electronic Doctor The Equations of Health Feedback and Physiology II. ONE HUNDRED MILLION MILLION AUTOMATIC UNITS WITHIN US Spades, Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts Protein Alphabet Machines of Life Line-Up of Molecules Our “ Central Heating” System Beehive Cybemeties Body Communication Systems Living Automation III. LABORATORY OF THINKING Mapping the Brain Neural Architecture Telephone Exchange? Step Search Guessing Game Cybernetic Training King For a Day Terra Incognita A Brain Within the Brain “ Alarm Clock” and “ Chronometer” Pleasure Centre Reflex Circuitry Voices of Neurons Neuron Junctions The Boons of Redundancy Electronic Brains IV. IF MACHINES WENT TO SCHOOL-------- “ Insect” Machines “ Vertebrate” Machines Guessing Games for the Brain Switches and Controllers A Vicious Circle How to Teach a Machine Of Cats and Martians V. PERCEPTION IN MACHINES Television in the Brain Behind the Screen Seeing Machines Hearing and Talking Machines A Signal of Signals Transmission Capacity of the Brain Language and Information Machine Language Is Strict Logic Necessary? Algorithms of Learning From a Machine’s Point of View INDEX Back Cover