Mystery Notes: In Class
Reading/Writing
Grey walters tortoises
Behavior, purpose., teleology: Walter Wiener Bigelow Rosenblueth
Purpose vs ideology The ideology of purpose Robots
Behaviorism :
Teleology became cybernetics Cybernetics: science of feedback systems
Behavior between object and its surroundings
Feed back Machines vs non feedback A thermostat vs a clock Non feedback doesnt respond to its environment
Claude shanon - theory of information
Identified info as a unit of probability
Rat maze
Ross ashbys homeo stat
Alan turning : cybernetics Turing test- derived from a game where a woman had to convince someone she is a man
The cybernetic brain- brian
Ultimate history: alan turing
Warren pitts
We collect information to hold off on the eventual decay of our memory
Bill nichols: representing reality
How to schisms get started and how do you stop then
Homeostasis in society How do things remain dynamic -recontextualizing ideas about mechanics for social systems
Communication: Sourse: Message: transmitter: Communications channel: destination
If information is about order, noise disrupts this order
Simplicity to complexity
Rewatch: communication primer charles and ray ehlms Painting transmitting message Source: mind of painter
Communication is what keeps society together Symbol: the abstracting of an idea Communication of an idea through symbols Also the communication from a symbol to a person
Some symbols pass through and become obscure to that only the anthropologist can read it
Ontology The world is informational Organization and sharing of data Links organisms
Its individual and its anonymous