Most philosophy seems to be centered on one of 2 things: survival or self-actualization. Almost all non-religious philosophy is centered on the latter. Darwinism (as a philosophy) and existentialism are the only major philosophies of survival that I can think of.
Any others?
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Sure (my professional bg is systems and control theory... so this is not a throwaway opinion... also I wouldn't put Shannon in that set).
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Took some drive-by swipes at it in this talk and I've done some passive aggressive muttering about it in various places, but never felt like doing a proper polemic. That sort of thing doesn't energize me enough to do slideshare.net/vgururao/syste
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It's not really grokkable without the talk track. And yes, that's kinda what happened. Gleick has a good critical take on Wiener in the opening chapters of 'The Information' which I largely agree with. See also Fred Turner 'Network Celebrity' fredturner.stanford.edu/wp-content/upl
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I have some sympathy for the motives that draw people to cybernetics. They're honest, even if too hedehoggy for my tastes (which is a matter of epistemic style rather than epistemic merit).
My problem with the field is simply that it doesn't actually work as a field.
Unless of course the purpose is creating a scene for the sake of creating a scene, in which case it works brilliantly.
