Psychocybernetic

 

Cybernetic - of the Greek, means pilot or governor; science that studies the communications and the control system not only in the alive organisms, as well as in the machines. Play of forces that govern the systems. In one of their aspects, refers to the comparative study of the operation and of the control of the nervous connections in the organized beings; in another aspect, to the systems of electric transmissions in the modern calculators and to the commands electro mechanics in the robots, electronic brains, operated by remote control apparatus. The command of operations can be executed by machines that have been supplied previously with information relative to the state of the system, starting from which it elaborates orders capable of guiding him afterwards. The cybernetics is from the beginning a logical science, in the measure in that analyzes rationally what comes to be "command", without the subject on who commands and how is made that command. It is also the starting point of significant applications, since their conclusions due to building machines command of all types, endowed with organs of information and of electronic brains which in reality drive the work, in agreement with the guidelines for them received.

In 1.947, the North American Norbert Wiener (* * *) published the first work entitled "Cybernetics", about the technique of the systems of automatic command, in which presented the cybernetics as a convergence science and established general notions on the mechanisms susceptible to command. Those notions would come to constitute the starting point of a wide movement, which could mean a true intellectual revolution, with the logical analysis of the superior beings' functions and of the processes that allow reproducing them artificially.

 

(***) Norbert Wiener - 1.894-1.964. Mathematician, physicist and North American cyberneticist. He was boy prodigy, entering the University of Harward at 14 years and being doctorate at 19, with domain of 18 languages.

He was teacher of mathematics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Besides several monographs on mathematical problems, he wrote, under the pseudonym of S. Norbert, policemen romances. Their researches are due to the fast evolution of the industrial automation, to the use of computers and electronic brains for the most several ends and to the new science of information and communication for which adapted the name of cybernetics. One of the incentives was the use for the atomic bomb.