21L.448J | Fall 2010 | Undergraduate

Darwin and Design

Video Lectures

Lecture 17: Evolution and Cybernetics

Topics: Evolution and Cybernetics

  1. Norbert Wiener, the golem, and the problem of control
  2. The key issue of cybernetics
  3. Evolution as Phylogenetic Learning
  4. Biological versus machine reproduction, Sorcery versus science
  5. An increasingly automated world

Instructor: Prof. James Paradis

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