Although the history of science and ideas is not my field, I could not imagine adopting Alfred North Whitehead’s opinion that every science, in order to avoid stagnation, must forget its founders. To the contrary, it seems to me that the ignorance display ed by most scientists with regard to the history of their discipline, far from being a source of dynamism, acts as a brake on their creativity.

On the Origins of Cognitive Science - The Mechanization of the Mind

by J-P Dupuy and translated by M. B. DeBevoise

An examination of the fundamental role cybernetics played in the birth of cognitive science and the light this sheds on current controversies.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262512398/on-the-origins-of-cognitive-science/