Editorial Note .................................................. 9
The Age of Cybernetics ......................................... 11
Claus Pias
1949
Participants ................................................... 28
Introductory Discussion ........................................ 29
The Psychological Moment in Perception ......................... 41
John Stroud
The Neurotic Potential and Human Adaptation .................... 66
Lawrence S. Kubie
Quantum Mechanical Theory of Memory ............................ 98
Heinz von Foerster
Possible Mechanisms of Recall and Recognition ................. 122
Sensory Prosthesises .......................................... 160
Norbert Wiener
References .................................................... 163
1950
Participants .................................................. 166
Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program ................ 167
Frank Fremont-Smith
Introductory Remarks .......................................... 169
Warren S. McCulloch
Some of the Problems Concerning Digital Notions in the
Central Nervous System ........................................ 171
Ralph W. Gerard
The Manner in Which and Extent to Which Speech Can Be
Distorted and Remain Intelligible ............................. 203
J.C.R. Licklider
The Redundancy of English ..................................... 248
Claude E. Shannon
Experience in Learning Primitive Languages Through the Use
of Learning High Level Linguistic Abstractions ................ 273
Margaret Mead
On the Development of Word Meanings ........................... 291
Heinz Werner
The Development of Language in Early Childhood ................ 303
John Stroud
The Relationship of Symbolic Function in Language Formation
and in Neurosis ............................................... 307
Lawrence S. Kubie
Appendix I:
Body Symbolization and Development of Language ................ 326
Lawrence S. Kubie
Appendix II: References ....................................... 335
1951
Participants .................................................. 338
Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program ................ 339
A Note by the Editors ......................................... 341
Communication Patterns in Problem-Solving Groups .............. 349
Alex Bavelas
Communication Between Men: The Meaning of Language ............ 382
Ivor A. Richards
Communication Between Sane and Insane: Hypnosis ............... 416
Lawrence S. Kubie
Communication Between Animals ................................. 446
Herbert G. Birch
Presentation of a Maze-Solving Machine ........................ 474
Claude Shannon
In Search of Basic Symbols .................................... 480
Donald M. Mac Kay
Appendix I:
The Nomenclature of Information Theory ........................ 511
Donald M. Mac Kay
Explanatory Glossary .......................................... 513
Alphabetical Index of Terms Used in Information Theory
and Related Communication Theory .............................. 522
Appendix II: References ....................................... 525
1952
Participants .................................................. 530
Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program ................ 531
A Note by the Editors ......................................... 533
The Position of Humor in Human Communication .................. 541
Gregory Bateson
The Place of Emotions in the Feedback Concept ................. 575
Lawrence S. Kubie
Homeostasis ................................................... 593
W. Ross Ashby
Discrimination and Learning in Octopus ........................ 620
J.Z. Young
Reduction of the Number of" Possible Boolean Functions ........ 629
John R. Bowman
Central Excitation and Inhibition ............................. 634
Ralph W. Gerard
Mechanical Chess Player ....................................... 651
W. Ross Ashby
Turbulence as Random Stimulation of Sense Organs .............. 654
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
Investigations on Synaptic Transmission ....................... 657
Walter Pitts
Feedback Mechanism in Cellular Biology ........................ 666
Henry Quastler
Appendix I: References ........................................ 677
1953
Participants .................................................. 682
Foreword ...................................................... 683
The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program ............ 683
Introductory Remarks .......................................... 687
Warren S. Mc Culloch
Studies on Activity of the Brain .............................. 689
W. Grey-Walter
Semantic Information and its Measures ......................... 697
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
Meaning in Language and How it is Acquired .................... 707
Yuen Ren Chao
Appendix I: Summary of the Points of Agreement Reached in
the Previous Nine Conferences on Cybernetics .................. 719
Warren S. Mc Culloch
Appendix II: References ....................................... 727
Index ......................................................... 729
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