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>"The aim of cognitive science always was - and still is today- the mechanization of the mind, not the humanization of the machine."
*Jean-Pierre Dupuy*
***The Mechanization of the Mind:***
*On the Origins of Cognitive Science*
https://www.google.ca/books/edition/On_the_Origins_of_Cognitive_Science/gDoiEAAAQBAJ
@Kihbernetics Thanks, sounds interesting! I’ll check out the original French edition at our library.
@true_mxp
According to Dupuy himself, the English translation is much better😀
@Kihbernetics Oh, wow, that’s an enthusiastic recommendation not to read the original ;-) Thanks, I’ll look for the translation then!
>One of the main themes of the present book is the confrontation
between Norbert Wiener and John von Neumann, Wiener embodying the ideas of control, mastery, and design, von Neumann the ideas of complexity and self-organization. Cybernetics never succeeded in resolving the tension, indeed the contradiction, between these two perspectives; more specifically, it never managed to give a satisfactory answer to the problems involved in realizing its ambition of *designing* an autonomous, self-organizing machine.