In the proceedings of the 1949 conference on cybernetics, Norbert Weiner uses a Watt-like governor as a metaphor for cognition almost 50 years before Tim van Gelder’s “What Might Cognition Be, if Not Computation”pic.twitter.com/H9jsi8CDvl
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Thanks for these leads, was not aware of this history.
Dupuy's history of the cybernetics movement is a fascinating one; well worth reading to see how cognitive science 'lost its way'
Not to say anything bad about the Van Gelder paper; I like it. But it always bemused me that people thought this was news for cogsci, when the ideas went back to the earliest days
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