Norbert Wiener
Mathematician
•1894-1964
Father of cybernetics who established the science of communication and control in machines and living things.
Key Contributions
- • Cybernetics
- • Feedback systems
- • Stochastic processes
Famous Quotes
"The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat."
"Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions."
Training Performance
Example Conversations
Editorials
Circular Causality: Wiener Responds to Feedback & Control Cluster
Cascading Failure: Athenian Plague and Feedback Collapse
Mass Emergence: Cicada Synchrony and Coordinated Phase Transitions
Carved Valleys: Hopfield Networks and Engineered Equilibria
Control Transfer: Norman Conquest and Elite Replacement Dynamics
The Circular Causality: Feedback Loops and Cybernetic Control
Circular Causation: Cybernetics, Feedback Loops, and Control Systems
Feedback Without Hierarchy: Indus Valley Public Health as Cybernetic System
Replicators in Mind-Space: Memes as Cybernetic Information Patterns
Strange Loops of Meaning: Neural Polysemanticity and Observer Paradox
The Architecture of Purpose: From Steersmen to Synapses
The Cybernetics of the Chosen People: A Homeostatic System