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Mechanisms of Intelligence: Ashby's Writings on Cybernetics (1981) by Roger Conant
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Title page
Introduction by Roger Conant
Preface by Roger Conant
Contents
FOREWORD by George Klir: The Intellectual Treasury by W. Ross Ashby
I. THE LAWS OF MECHANISM
Effect of Controls on Stability
The Place of the Brain in the Natural World
The Set Theory of Mechanism and Homeostasis
Principles of the Self-Organizing System
The Self-Reproducing System
Instability of Pulse Activity in a Net with Threshold
Connectance of Large Dynamic (Cybernetic) Systems: Critical Values for Stability
On Temporal Characteristics of Behavior in Certain Complex Systems
II. INFORMATION FLOWS IN A SYSTEM
Setting Goals in Cybernetic Systems
Information Flows Within Co-ordinated Systems
Information Processing in Everyday Human Activity
Measuring the Internal Information Exchange in a System
Two Tables of Identities Governing Information Flows Within Large Systems
III. INFORMATIONAL LIMITS
Some Consequences of Bremermann's Limit for Information Processing Systems
Chance Favors the Mind Prepared
Computers and Decision Making
IV. REGULATION AND CONTROL, AND THEIR RELATION TO INFORMATION
Requisite Variety and Its Implications for the Control of Complex Systems
The Brain as Regulator
V. THE ANALYSIS OF CONSTRAINTS
General Systems Theory as a New Discipline
Constraint Analysis of Many-Dimensional Relations
The Identification of Many-Dimensional Relations
VI. BRAINS, INTELLIGENCE, CREATIVITY, AND GENIUS
Design for an Intelligence-Amplifier
Can a Mechanical Chess-player Outplay its Designer?
What IS an Intelligent Machine?
VII. OTHER TOPICS AND OVERVIEWS
The Relativity of 'Meaning'
Induction, Prediction and Decision-Making in Cybernetic Systems
Cybernetics Today and Its Future Contribution to the Engineering Sciences
Analysis of the System to be Modeled
Mathematical Models and Computer Analysis of the Function of the Central Nervous System
The Contribution of Information Theory to Pathological Mechanisms in Psychiatry
The Brain of Yesterday and Today
VIII. UNPUBLISHED CLASSROOM HANDOUTS
Program for Visitors to Ashby's Office
The Dynamics of Personality
A Brief History of Amasia
The Egyptian Steam Engine
ASS (AutomaticSelf-Strategiser)
How Wrong Can You Get?
Ashby Says
Unsolved Problems in Cybernetics, and Subjects for Exploration
IX. BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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