Cybernetics

9 Editorial Note 11 - 26 The Age of Cybernetics 29 - 40 Introductory Discussion 41 - 65 The Psychological Moment in Perception 66 - 97 The Neurotic Potential and Human Adaptation 98 - 121 Quantum Mechanical Theory of Memory 122 - 159 Possible Mechanisms of Recall and Recognition 160 - 162 Sensory Prosthesises 163 - 164 References (1949) 166 1950. Participants 167 - 168 Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program (1950) 169 Introductory Remarks 171 - 202 Some of the Problems Concerning Digital Notions in the Central Nervous System 203 - 247 The Manner in Which and Extent to Which Speech Can Be Distorted and Remain Intelligible 248 - 272 The Redundancy of English 273 - 290 Experience in Learning Primitive Languages Through the Use of Learning High Level Linguistic Abstractions 291 - 302 On the Development of Word Meanings 303 - 306 The Development of Language in Early Childhood 307 - 325 The Relationship of Symbolic Function in Language Formation and in Neurosis 326 - 334 Appendix I: Body Symbolization and Development of Language 335 Appendix II: References (1950) 338 1951. Participants 339 - 340 Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program (1951) 341 - 348 A Note by the Editors (1951) 349 - 381 Communication Patterns in Problem-Solving Groups 382 - 415 Communication Between Men 416 - 445 Communication Between Sane and Insane 446 - 473 Communication Between Animals 474 - 479 Presentation of a Maze-Solving Machine 480 - 509 In Search of Basic Symbols 511 - 523 Appendix I: The Nomenclature of Information Theory 525 - 528 Appendix II: References (1951) 530 1952. Participants 531 - 532 Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program (1952) 533 - 540 A Note by the Editors (1952) 541 - 574 The Position of Humor in Human Communication 575 - 592 The Place of Emotions in the Feedback Concept 593 - 619 Homeostasis 620 - 628 Discrimination and Learning in Octopus 629 - 633 Reduction of the Number of Possible Boolean Functions 634 - 650 Central Excitation and Inhibition 651 - 653 Mechanical Chess Player 654 - 656 Turbulence as Random Stimulation of Sense Organs 657 - 665 Investigations on Synaptic Transmission 666 - 676 Feedback Mechanism in Cellular Biology 677 - 679 Appendix I: References (1952) 682 1953. Participants 683 Foreword 685 - 686 The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program (1953) 687 - 688 Introductory Remarks 689 - 696 Studies on Activity of the Brain 697 - 706 Semantic Information and its Measures 707 - 718 Meaning in Language and How it is Acquired 719 - 725 Appendix I: Summary of the Points of Agreement Reached in the Previous Nine Conferences on Cybernetics 727 - 728 Appendix II: References (1953) 729 - 734 Index