The Cybernetic Brain

by Andrew Pickering

Cardew, Corneliusnnn

  Cardiazol

  Cariani, Peter

  Carmichael, Stokely

  Castaneda, Carlos

  CASTE. SeeCourse Assembly System and

  Tutorial Environment (CASTE)

  cellular automata (CAs), ,

  early research on

  Eno's interest in

  Frazer's research on

  as ontological icons

  Pask's research on

  Wolfram's research on

  Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral

  Sciences

  Center of the Cyclone, The(Lilly)

  Cerletti, Ugo

  chakras

  Chakras, The(Leadbeater)

  Chapel of Extreme Experience(Geiger)

  Chapman, Kate

  Checo (Chilean economy)

  chemical computers,

  chemical shock. See also shock therapies

  chicken incubators

  Chilennn

  chlorpromazine

  Christianityn. See also spirituality,

  cybernetics and

  "Chronicles of Wizard Prang" (Beer)

  clairvoyance

  Clark, John

  Clausewitz, Carl von

  Clockwork Orange, A(Burgess)

  Cobb, W. A.

  cockroach-controlled robot,

  Coevolution Quarterly,

  cognitive revolution

  cognitive science

  Coles, Jim

  collective consciousness

  collective decision making

  Collins, Harry

  Colloquy of Mobiles,

  comfort, adaptation and

  communism

  complexity, discovery of

  complexity within simplicity, discovery of

  computer graphics

  computer science

  computer software

  for company management

  for doing mathematics

  Comte, Auguste

  Conant, Roger

  Conrad, Tony

  Continental philosophy

  continuous adaptation. See evolutionary

  behavior in cybernetics

  "control," cybernetics and

  aversion therapy and

  critiques of

  engineering and

  Fun Palace and

  music and

  Pask on

  politics and

  relevance conditions of

  schizophrenia and

  spirituality and

  surrender of

  Control Magazine,

  Conway, John

  Cook, Peter

  Coomaraswamy, Ananda K

  Cooper, David

  Cooper, R.

  CORA circuit,

  Cordeschi, Roberto

  Corporacíon de Fomento de la Produccíon (CORFO)

  cosmos, in Beer's view

  counterculture. See sixties and counterculture

  Course Assembly System and Tutorial

  Environment (CASTE),

  Craik, Kenneth

  Ashby and

  The Nature of Explanation,

  phrase "the go of it,"

  scanning idea of

  term "hylozoism" used by

  Walter and

  work of

  writings of

  cross-conditioning animal experiments

  cruise missiles

  crystallography

  Cudlipp, Hugh

  Cunnold, Joan

  Curran, Susan

  Curve of the Snowflake, The(Walter)

  "cybernation,"

  Cybernetic Serendipityexhibition (),

  cybernetics

  adaptive mechanisms and

  amateurism of British studies

  anticontrol and

  approach to "Black Box,"

  arts and

  biology and

  brain research and

  British involvement in

  "control" and

  "conversation" metaphor for

  critiques of

  design notion in

  discovery of complexity and

  economics and

  education and

  elements of fun in

  epistemology and

  factory automation systems and

  "first-order,"

  fixed goals in early research

  as form of life

  as general theory

  glamour of

  knowledge and

  lack of educational avenues for

  madness and

  marginality of

  meeting protocols and

  military applications of

  music and

  nature's computers

  nonmodern institutions for

  as ontological theater

  ontology of

  origin story (alternative)

  origin story (standard)

  political critique of

  politics and

  propagation of

  protean and interdisciplinary quality of

  psychiatry and

  quasi-popular books on

  real-world projects of

  reasons for interest in

  scanning behavior research

  "second-order,"

  sketch of another future for

  social basis and transmission of

  social inequality and

  Soviet research on

  strange performances and altered states and

  themes from history of

  as theory of everything

  unexplored research avenues

  war and

  word coinage

  Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the

  Animal and the Machine(Wiener)

  Cybernetics and Management(Beer)

  "Cybernetics and the Knowledge of God"

  (Beer)

  "cybernetics of crisis,"

  Cybor House

  cyborgs

  Daily Express,

  Daily Herald,

  Damper, R. I.n

  DAMS project, ,

  Ashby's struggles with nn–n

  ssemblage

  as "Black Box,"

  conception

  essential variables

  failure

  DAMS project (cont.)

  funding problems for

  gating mechanism,

  habituation behavior and

  influence of

  madness induced in, ,

  military slant to

  as model of brain

  as ontological theater

  as regulator

  dance of agency concept

  algedonic feedback and

  "Black Box" and

  dance of Shiva as

  in environmental control systemsn

  feedback flicker and

  homeostats and

  Musicolour machine and

  pragmatism and

  psychiatry and

  teaching machines and

  tortoises and

  Daphnia,

  Darwin, Charles

  David Burns Manuscript, The,

  de Brath, S.n

  de Kooning, Willem

  Dearden, Basiln

  Debord, Guy

  "decentering of self" conceptnn–nn

  decision theory

  DeLanda, Manueln

  Deleuze, Gilles

  hylozoist ideas ofn

  "nomad" vs. "royal" sciences

  A Thousand Plateaus,n

  Descartes, Renén

  design. See alsoarchitecture

  Alexander's approach tonn–

  blueprint attitude towardn (see also design)

  CORA and

  cybernetic notion of

  as detour

  evolutionary

  nature as guide for

  ontology and

  philosophy of

  "tortoises" and

  types of

  urban planning and

  Design for a
Brain(Ashby)

  adaptive behavior described inn

  Alexander influenced by

  cybernetics mentioned inn

  DAMS mentioned in

  equilibrium calculated in

  habituation behavior described inn

  homeostatic autopilot described in

  influence of

  mathematical analysis of complex systems in

  step-function design in

  Designing Freedom(Beer)

  Dewan, Edmondn

  Diagnosing the System for Organizations(Beer)

  digital electronic computing

  as detour

  earlyn

  Discworld(Pratchett)

  dispersive systems

  "distributed cognition" theoryn

  Doctor WhoTV seriesn

  dolphinsn

  Doors of Perception, The(Huxley)nnn

  double bind conceptnnn

  Dovey, Vivian

  Dowson, Mark n

  Dream Machine (Dreamachine), ,nn–

  dreams. See alsostrange performances

  and altered states

  Driberg, Tomn

  dualism, modernity and n

  Dylan, Bob

  Eastern religions and cultures

  Beer and nn–

  cybernetics and

  Pask and

  psychiatry and

  sixties and

  strange performances and

  See also Buddhism; spirituality, cybernet

  ics and

  "echoing back" concept

  ecology, modernism and n

  economics, cybernetics and n

  Eddington, Arthur Stanley

  Edinburgh Fringe Festival

  Ediswan company

  education, cybernetics

  See also Anti

  University of London; training and

  teaching machines, cybernetic

  educational psychology

  Eighth Dayinstallation (Kac),

  Einstein, Albert

  Eisenman, Peter

  Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The (Wolfe)

  electrochemical "threads," , –.

  See also chemical computers

  electroencephalography (EEG)

  applied to factory,

  biofeedback and n

  drugs' replacement of

  electroshock compared with

  flicker and

  military applications

  Parr's workn

  "tortoises" in research

  Walter's research on – nn–n

  Electroencephalography and Clinical Neuro

  physiology journal

  Electronic Engineering,

  electroshock (ECT), , –nnn

  Eliade, M.n

  Ellul, Jacquesn

  Embodiments of Mind (Lettvin)

  emptiness, notion of

  enframing concept n

  engineering. See also design

  adaptive

  brain science and

  "control" and

  notion of design in

  ontology andnn

  social concept

  Enlightenmentn

  enneagrams, –nn

  Eno, Briann –nn–

  Ascott andnn

  Beer's influence on n

  "Generative Music" talk

  interest in CAs

  Music for Airports, n

  "entailment mesh," n

  environmental control systemsnn

  epilepsynn

  epistemology, cybernetics andn.

  See also "knowledge

  as detour" concept; performative

  epistemology

  epistemology, spirituality and

  equilibrium, notion of

  Ashby's calculations

  dynamic

  homeostats and

  life and

  mathematical researchesn

  in psychiatry

  Ernst, Max

  Esalen Institutenn–nnnnn

  Espejo, Raul n

  Eucrates, –,nn

  eudemony

  eugenics

  Euglenaprotozoa, ,–

  Evain, Gillesn

  Evans, Margiad n

  Evolutionary Architecture, An (Frazer)

  evolutionary behavior in cybernetics. See

  also ontology of becoming; performative

  epistemology

  Ashby's views and research

  chemical computers and

  design and n

  environmental control applications

  Pask's views on

  exceedingly complex systems

  Beer's theory of

  brain as

  children asn

  cosmos as

  defined

  economic environment of firm

  imaginary

  liveliness of

  material world asnn–

  models of

  Musicolour machine as

  nation-states as

  other people as

  schizophrenics as

  self as

  sigma vision and

  world seen as multiplicity of

  "expectancy wave,"

  experimental ontologyn

  extrasensory perceptionn. See also

  strange performances and altered

  states

  factory automation systems

  Beer's vision of

  biological computers and

  chemical computers and

  critiques of n

  EEG of,

  material systems in

  postwar views of n

  "relevance conditions" in

  schematic of, ,–

  steel mill plan,

  VSM and

  Facts of Life, The (Laing)

  Fantasia (Disney film)n

  feedback systems. See also biofeedback

  algedonic meters,

  Beer's experiments

  as brain model

  cause-controlled

  error-controlled

  factory automation and

  flicker and

  music's use of n

  questionnaires and opinion polls

  social

  theatrical audience as

  theory of

  Fehr, Elizabethn

  Fleming, G. W. T. H.n

  flicker

  commercialization ofn

  defined

  Dream Machine (Dreamachine) and

  feedback-controlled, ,

  in filmn

  Living City machine,

  research onnnnn–

  sixties and

  as technology of self

  transcendental states and

  Flicker, The (film) n

  flight simulators

  Flores, Fernandon

  Foerster, Heinz vonnnnn

  Foerster, Mai von

  Forrester, J. W.n

  Foucault, Michel

  Fox, Samuel

  fractal geometrynn

  Frankenstein's monster analogy

  Frazer, Johnnn

  Frazer, Julia

  Freeman, Waltern

  Fremont-Smith, Franknn

  Frenchay Hospitaln

  "frequency pulling," n

  Fripp, Robertn

  Froebel, Friedrichn

  Fromm-Reichmann, Friedan

  Fry, William

  Fuller, Buckminstern

  Fun Palace, –,n

  in context of leisuren

  Cybernetics Subcommitteenn–nn–

  influence ofn

  as revealing machine

  Trocchi's sigma project and

  fungoids

  Future of the Body, The (Murphy)n

  Future Shock (Toffler)n

  Gabor, Dennisn

  Game of Lifen

  Gandhin

  Gardner, M. R.n

  Garfinkel, Howard

  Garrett, Eileenn

  Gauss, Carl Friedrichn

  Geiger, Johnnn

  generative musicnn–
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  Generator projectn

  geodesic domesn

  George, Frank n

  gerbil architecture, ,

  Gere, Charlien

  Gill, Anthonyn

  Gillis, Michael

  Gilman Paper Corporation

  Ginsberg, Allennnn

  Glanville, Ranulphnnnn

  Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital

  global warming

  goals, fixed

  of AI robots

  Ashby's discussion of

  of homeostats

  of military equipment

  of "tortoises," –

  goals, undefined

  control and

  as human state

  Pask's views on

  in psychiatric treatment

  viable system model (VSM) and

  in VSM

  Goffman, Erving

  Goldacre, Reginaldnnn

  Goldstein, Alvin

  Golem of Prague analogy

  Golla, Fredericknnnn

  Golla, Yolande

  Gorizia mental hospital (Italy)n

  Gracie, Andyn

  Grateful Dead, the

  Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon)n

  Great Chain of Being

  Great Learning, The (Cardew)nn

  Gregory, Richardnn

  Grogan, Emmett

  Groningen, city of,

  Grosch, H. R. J.

  Guattari, Félix

  hylozoism ofn

  "nomad" vs. "royal" sciences

  A Thousand Plateaus,

  Gurdjieff, George Ivanovich

  gymnastics of the soul

  Gysin, Brion, ,n

  Habermas, Jürgennn

  habituation behaviornn

  Haley, Jay

  hallucinationsnn

  psychoactive drugs and

  See also strange performances and altered

  states

  Hamilton, William Rowann

  Hanlon, Joseph

  Hannaway, Cynthia

  Haraway, Donnan

  Harries-Jones, Peternnn

  hatha yoga

  Hawkridge, David

  Hayward, Rhodri

  Heart of the Enterprise, The (Beer)

  Heaven and Hell (Huxley)

  Hebb, D. O. n

  Heidegger, Martin

  enframing and revealing concepts

  "Only a God Can Save Us,"

  Heidegger, Martin (cont.)

  philosophy ofnnn

  "The Question Concerning Technology,"

  Heidelberg University psychiatric clinicn

  Henderson, L. J. n

  Hendrix, Jimin

  Heron, Ron

  Hertz, Garnet

  Hesse, Mary n

  Heynen, Hilde

  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The(Adams)n

  Hitler, Adolf

  Holland, Owen

  homeostasis

  Ashby's research on

  as goal

  nirvana andn

  in OR n

  term originnn

  homeostats

  as adaptive mechanisms

  applied to cybernetic factory plan

  "Black Box" ontology

  DAMS project as successor to

  described

  finite states of

  fixed goals of

  hobbyist character of

  as Machina sopora,

  as models of brain, ,

  multi-unit setup, ,nn

  as ontological theater

  origin of termn

  performative engagement of

  press articles on

  as regulators

  shortcomings of

  sketch of,

  "tortoises" contrasted with