Whoever is tired of “natural” jellyfish may not be thrilled. Still, the robotic jellyfish from German company Festo was impressive. Perhaps it isn’t the most technically challenging build the firm …
the cyberlibertarian ideology and digital commons
a manifesto for cyberspace… “Oh, you governments of the Industrial World, you who look like exhausted and obsolete giants of flesh and metal, I come from Cyberspace, the new home …
cybernetics
The gentleman in the first photograph is the renowned linguist Roman Jakobson, one of the principal (if not the principal) founders of structuralism in linguistics. Taking Saussure’s theories as his …
genetic / cybernetic: a white wedding
“The genetic code is the set of rules by which information stored in the genetic material of living cells (DNA or RNA sequences) is translated into proteins (amino acid sequences).” …
Synthetic biology and molecular programming: cells as a chain of (re-)production
Where programming meets biology Only 15 years have passed since the “distant” era (by today’s standards of technological advancement) when microprocessor manufacturing companies engaged in a race to increase the …
Mechanization of knowledge: common sense
Common sense as a mechanism for representing and directly justifying the natural world, forms, people, things and social relations is an old issue, primarily in philosophy. Such a sense/perception of …
The pregnancy of the cyborg
…Here I want to interject an important element: words like Life, Purpose, and Soul are completely unsuitable in pure scientific thinking. These terms acquired their meaning because we recognize the …
Hey teacher leave our brains alone! (first notes for neuroscience)
“It was generally accepted that our fate is hidden in the stars. But now we know exactly that it is written in our genes.” This phrase of Watson’s expresses in …
Rigidity and learning
Excerpts from Norbert Wiener’s book “Cybernetics and Society, the human use of human beings”, Chapter “Rigidity and learning. Two models of communication behavior”. (The book was first published in 1949, …
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