Heinz von Foerster and Early Research in the Field of Pattern Recognition at the Biological Computer Laboratory

Müggenburg, Jan

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“…Initially, the BCL developed machines that mimicked electrical nerve activity (Müller, 2011). A good example is the Numa-rete, developed by von Foerster and doctoral student Paul Weston, which imitated the retina, counting objects in its visuospatial field (Müggenburg, 2019). While initial work tended towards Ashby’s first-order cybernetics, a shift occurred when von Foerster began collaborating with Humberto Maturana.…”

Section: Second-order Cybernetics and Its Bifurcation From Psychologymentioning

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Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations

Tilak

Glassman

Kuznetcova

et al. 2021

Theory & Psychology

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This article outlines links between cybernetics and psychology through the black box metaphor using a tripartite narrative. The first part explores first-order cybernetic approaches to opening the black box. These developments run parallel to the decline of radical behaviorism and advancements in information processing theory and neuropsychology. We then describe how cybernetics migrates towards a second-order approach (expanding and questioning features of first-order inquiry), understanding applications of rule-based tools to sociocultural phenomena and dynamic mental models, inspiring radical constructivism, and also accepting social constructivism. Psychology, however, enters the cognitive revolution, adhering to the computer metaphor of first-order cyberneticians to streamline human consciousness. The article concludes by outlining how second-order cybernetic approaches emerging in the 1990s may provide cues to psychologists to adopt mixed methods, and bioecological models in the information age, uniting understandings of observable human activity, inner perceptions, and physiological processes across contexts to understand consciousness.

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Section: Second-order Cybernetics and Its Bifurcation From Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations

Tilak

Glassman

Kuznetcova

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Theory & Psychology

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Heinz von Foerster and Early Research in the Field of Pattern Recognition at the Biological Computer Laboratory

Cited by 1 publication

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Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations

Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations

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