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1. The Adaptive Brain

© 2019 University of Chicago Press

© 2019 University of Chicago Press

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. 1. The Adaptive Brain 1
  5. 2. Ontological Theater 17
  6. PART 1 : PSYCHIATRY TO CYBERNETICS
  7. 3. Grey Walter: From Electroshock to the Psychedelic Sixties 37
  8. 4. Ross Ashby: Psychiatry, Synthetic Brains, and Cybernetics 91
  9. 5. Gregory Bateson and R. D. Laing: Symmetry, Psychiatry, and the Sixties 171
  10. PART 2 : BEYOND THE BRAIN
  11. 6. Stafford Beer: From the Cybernetic Factory to Tantric Yoga 215
  12. 7. Gordon Pask: From Chemical Computers to Adaptive Archictecture 309
  13. 8. Sketches of Another Future 379
  14. Notes 403
  15. References 479
  16. Index 503
The Cybernetic Brain
This chapter is in the book The Cybernetic Brain
https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226667928-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. 1. The Adaptive Brain 1
  5. 2. Ontological Theater 17
  6. PART 1 : PSYCHIATRY TO CYBERNETICS
  7. 3. Grey Walter: From Electroshock to the Psychedelic Sixties 37
  8. 4. Ross Ashby: Psychiatry, Synthetic Brains, and Cybernetics 91
  9. 5. Gregory Bateson and R. D. Laing: Symmetry, Psychiatry, and the Sixties 171
  10. PART 2 : BEYOND THE BRAIN
  11. 6. Stafford Beer: From the Cybernetic Factory to Tantric Yoga 215
  12. 7. Gordon Pask: From Chemical Computers to Adaptive Archictecture 309
  13. 8. Sketches of Another Future 379
  14. Notes 403
  15. References 479
  16. Index 503
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