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... observer ( formalized in Claude Shannon's mathematization of information , the concept of homeostasis , and Norbert Wiener's linking of information with probability theory ) ; ( 2 ) the introduction of reflexivity through the inclusion ...
... observer ( formalized in Claude Shannon's mathematization of information , the concept of homeostasis , and Norbert Wiener's linking of information with probability theory ) ; ( 2 ) the introduction of reflexivity through the inclusion ...
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... observer into the informational circuit , has a pivotal role . ( His role in the book is larger than Hayles acknowledges , as we shall see . ) Francisco Varela , following his break with Maturana , is the theoretical spur to the third ...
... observer into the informational circuit , has a pivotal role . ( His role in the book is larger than Hayles acknowledges , as we shall see . ) Francisco Varela , following his break with Maturana , is the theoretical spur to the third ...
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... observer and " inner " communications now refashioned in the image of the information - processing machine . For many posthumanists , and not only the AI researchers , the human body becomes de - realized the more it is revealed to be a ...
... observer and " inner " communications now refashioned in the image of the information - processing machine . For many posthumanists , and not only the AI researchers , the human body becomes de - realized the more it is revealed to be a ...
Contents
Gary Westfahl The Popular Tradition of Science Fiction | 187 |
Hassler The Academic Pioneers of Science Fiction | 213 |
OTHER ARTICLES | 284 |
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