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Puppets Without Strings (Science for Everyone) – Varshavsky, Pospelov
In this post, we will see the book Puppets Without Strings: Reflections on the Evolution and Control of Some Man-Made Systems by V. I. Varshavsky, D. A. Pospelov. This is another book in the Science For Everyone series. About the … Continue reading
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Tagged automata, behavior, control, decentralisation, feedback, machines, mechanisms, mir books, patterns, puppets, science for everyone, soviet, systems, technology, theory
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Cybernetics Of Living Matter: Nature, Man, Information – Markov (Ed.)
In this post, we will look at the book Cybernetics Of Living Matter: Nature, Man, Information edited by I. M. Markov. About the book: The book has been written by a team of leading Soviet authorities in the field of … Continue reading
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Tagged ageing, biology, cognition, complexiety, cybernetics, data, evolution, genetics, information, intelligence, magnetic field, mir books, mir publishers, organism, psychology, soviet, theoretical
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Cybernetics Today: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects – Makarov (Ed.)
In this post, we will see the book Cybernetics Today: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects edited by I. M. Makarov. About the book The book has been written by a team of leading Soviet authorities in the field of cybernetics, among … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artificial, automata, cognition, computers, consciousness, control, culture, cybernectics, future, intelligence, learning machines, life, man-machine interaction, mind, mir books, mir publishers, polemics, psychology, science, soviet
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Cybernetics Within Us – Saparina
In this post, we will see the book Cybernetics Within Us by Yelena Saparina. About the book Can a rat tell the difference between a Raphael Madonna and a Picasso Girl in Blue? Would a Martian (if there is such … Continue reading
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Tagged automata, brains, circuits, cognition, cognitive science, cybernetics, information, interaction, language, learning, levels, logic, machine, mind, mir publishers, molecules, neural architecture, neurons, peace publishers, perception, pleasure centre, popular, science, systems, vision
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How reliable is the brain? -Asratyan, Simonov
In this post, we will see the book How reliable is the brain? by E. Asratyan and P. Simonov. About the book The book deals with topical problems of contemporary neurophysiology related to the restoration of impaired functions of the central nervous … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, brain, central nervous system, control, life sciences, medicine, mir publishers, neurophysiology, neuroscience, science, systems
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This Chancy, Chancy, Chancy World – Rastrigin
In this post we will see This Chancy, Chancy, Chancy World By Leonard Rastrigin. Have you ever sat down and thought about how often chance affects your life? If you have, then you probably realize that chance literally hits us … Continue reading
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Tagged chance, control, cybernetics, descision, evolution, monte carlo, risk
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Little Mathematics Library – Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem
After the last two posts by V. A. Uspenskii (check out his site here) which dealt with Post’s Machine, and Pascal’s Triangle, we now come to another book by him in the Little Mathematics Library series titled Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. … Continue reading
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Tagged algorithms computers, Gödel's proof, godel, incompleteness theorem, logic
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