„Das Gehirn ist ein Computer“
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Geburtstag: 26. November 1894
Todesdatum: 18. März 1964
Andere Namen: نوربرت وینر
Norbert Wiener war ein US-amerikanischer Mathematiker. Er ist als Begründer der Kybernetik bekannt, ein Ausdruck, den er in seinem Werk Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine prägte.
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Econ, Düsseldorf 1965; Seite 120 und 122 - zitiert von Andreas Weber in: 'Biokapital. Die Versöhnung von Ökonomie, Natur und Menschlichkeit, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3827007925, Seite 71
Original engl.: "the economists have developed the habit of dressing up their rather imprecise ideas in the language of the infinitesimal calculus. [...] any pretense of applying precise formulae to these loosly defined quantities is a sham and a waste of time." - God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion. Cambridge M.I.T. Press, 1964. p. 90 http://books.google.de/books?id=yLiSM41pHOwC&pg=PA90 - p. 91 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=yLiSM41pHOwC&pg=PA91
— Norbert Wiener, buch The Human Use of Human Beings
nach William Voltz, Alphabet des Schreckens, Pabel, Rastatt, 1980, Seite 104
"the individuality of the body is that of a flame rather than that of a stone, of a form rather than of a bit of substance. This form can be transmitted or modified and duplicated, [...]" - The Human Use of Human Beings - Cybernetics and Society. 1954- p. 102 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=l9l6zquHvZIC&pg=PA102
Wiener's Law of Libraries, original: "There are no answers, only cross references") - Norbert Wiener 1894-1964 (Vita Mathematica), Seite 337, ISBN: 3764322462
Original engl.:"Information is information, not matter or energy." (Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, 1948. Seite 166
Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth (1964)
Kontext: The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.
Quelle: I am a mathematician, the later life of a prodigy (1953), p. 266
Kontext: We mathematicians who operate with nothing more expensive than paper and possibly printers' ink are quite reconciled to the fact that, if we are working in an active field, our discoveries will commence to be obsolete at the moment that they are written down or even at the moment they are conceived. We know that for a long time everything we do will be nothing more than the jumping off point for those who have the advantage of already being aware of our ultimate results. This is the meaning of the famous apothegm of Newton, when he said, "If I have seen further than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants".
"A Scientist Rebels" Atlantic Monthly (Jan, 1947)
Kontext: The measures taken during the war by our military agencies, in restricting the free intercourse among scientists on related projects or even on the same project have gone so far that it is clear that if continued in time of peace, this policy will lead to the total irresponsibility of the scientist, and, ultimately, to the death of science.... The interchange of ideas, which is one of the greatest traditions of science, must of course receive certain limitations when the scientist becomes an arbiter of life and death.... I do not expect to publish any future work of mine which may do damage in the hands of irresponsible militarists...
— Norbert Wiener, buch God & Golem, Inc.
Quelle: God & Golem, Inc. (1964), p. 69
Quelle: The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society
Kontext: [T]he future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence. The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
— Norbert Wiener, buch Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Quelle: Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948), p. 2-4; As cited in: George Klir (2001) Facets of Systems Science, p. 47-48
— Norbert Wiener, buch Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Quelle: Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948), p. 2
— Norbert Wiener, buch The Human Use of Human Beings
Quelle: The Human Use of Human Beings (1950), p. 26-27 as cited in: Felix Geyer, Johannes van der Zouwen, (1994) " Norbert Wiener and the Social Sciences http://www.critcrim.org/redfeather/chaos/024Weiner.htm", Kybernetes, Vol. 23 Iss: 6/7, pp.46 - 61
— Norbert Wiener, buch Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
V. Computing Machines and the Nervous System. p. 121.
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)
Philosophy of Science (1945) (with A. Rosenblueth)
— Norbert Wiener, buch The Human Use of Human Beings
VIII. Role of the Intellectual and the Scientist. p. 135
The Human Use of Human Beings (1950)
— Norbert Wiener, buch Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Preface. page xi. (Footnote 1)
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)
— Norbert Wiener, buch The Human Use of Human Beings
X. Some Communication Machines and Their Future. p. 184
The Human Use of Human Beings (1950)
— Norbert Wiener, buch The Human Use of Human Beings
VII. Communication, Secrecy, and Social Policy. p. 129
The Human Use of Human Beings (1950)
— Norbert Wiener, buch The Human Use of Human Beings
II. Progress and Entropy. p. 46
The Human Use of Human Beings (1950)