Cybernetics | Kybernetik 1

9 Editorische Notiz/Editorial Note (Claus Pias)
11 - 17 Circular Causality (Heinz von Foerster)
19 - 26 Zirkuläre Kausalität (Heinz von Foerster)
28 1949. Participants
29 - 40 Introductory Discussion
41 - 65 The Psychological Moment in Perception (John Stroud)
66 - 97 The Neurotic Potential and Human Adaptation (Lawrence S. Kubie)
98 - 121 Quantum Mechanical Theory of Memory (Heinz von Foerster)
122 - 159 Possible Mechanisms of Recall and Recognition
160 - 162 Sensory Prosthesises (Norbert Wiener)
163 - 164 References (1949)
166 1950. Participants
167 - 168 Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program (1950) (Frank Fremont-Smith)
169 Introductory Remarks (Warren S. McCulloch)
171 - 202 Some of the Problems Concerning Digital Notions in the Central Nervous System (Ralph W. Gerard)
203 - 247 The Manner in Which and Extent to Which Speech Can Be Distorted and Remain Intelligible (J.C.R. Licklider)
248 - 272 The Redundancy of English (Claude E. Shannon)
273 - 290 Experience in Learning Primitive Languages Through the Use of Learning High Level Linguistic Abstractions (Margaret Mead)
291 - 302 On the Development of Word Meanings (Heinz Werner)
303 - 306 The Development of Language in Early Childhood (John Stroud)
307 - 325 The Relationship of Symbolic Function in Language Formation and in Neurosis (Lawrence S. Kubie)
326 - 334 Appendix I: Body Symbolization and Development of Language (Lawrence S. Kubie)
335 Appendix II: References (1950)
338 1951. Participants
339 - 340 Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program (1951) (Frank Fremont-Smith)
341 - 348 A Note by the Editors (1951) (Margaret Mead, Hans Lukas Teuber, Heinz von Foerster)
349 - 381 Communication Patterns in Problem-Solving Groups (Alex Bavelas)
382 - 415 Communication Between Men (Ivor A. Richards)
416 - 445 Communication Between Sane and Insane (Lawrence S. Kubie)
446 - 473 Communication Between Animals (Herbert G. Birch)
474 - 479 Presentation of a Maze-Solving Machine (Claude E. Shannon)
480 - 509 In Search of Basic Symbols (Donald M. MacKay)
511 - 523 Appendix I: The Nomenclature of Information Theory (Donald M. MacKay)
525 - 528 Appendix II: References (1951)
530 1952. Participants
531 - 532 Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program (1952) (Frank Fremont-Smith)
533 - 540 A Note by the Editors (1952) (Margaret Mead, Hans Lukas Teuber, Heinz von Foerster)
541 - 574 The Position of Humor in Human Communication (Gregory Bateson)
575 - 592 The Place of Emotions in the Feedback Concept (Lawrence S. Kubie)
593 - 619 Homeostasis (W. Ross Ashby)
620 - 628 Discrimination and Learning in Octopus (J.Z. Young)
629 - 633 Reduction of the Number of Possible Boolean Functions (John R. Bowman)
634 - 650 Central Excitation and Inhibition (Ralph W. Gerard)
651 - 653 Mechanical Chess Player (W. Ross Ashby)
654 - 656 Turbulence as Random Stimulation of Sense Organs (G. Evelyn Hutchinson)
657 - 665 Investigations on Synaptic Transmission (Walter Pitts)
666 - 676 Feedback Mechanism in Cellular Biology (Henry Quastler)
677 - 679 Appendix I: References (1952)
682 1953. Participants
683 Foreword (Frank Fremont-Smith)
685 - 686 The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program (1953) (Frank Fremont-Smith)
687 - 688 Introductory Remarks (Warren S. McCulloch)
689 - 696 Studies on Activity of the Brain (W. Grey-Walter)
697 - 706 Semantic Information and its Measures (Yehoshua Bar-Hillel)
707 - 718 Meaning in Language and How it is Acquired (Yuen Ren Chao)
719 - 725 Appendix I: Summary of the Points of Agreement Reached in the Previous Nine Conferences on Cybernetics (Warren S. McCulloch)
727 - 728 Appendix II: References (1953)
729 - 734 Index