AN ARCHEOLOGY AND FUTURE OF MOVING PICTURES
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Rolf Pixley |
Anomalous Research |
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Once and Future Machine(s) The New Mechanists and their surprising devices. Rolf Pixley, Anomalous Research, Amsterdam A unique artifact, the "Homeostat" (circa. 1948), constructed by W. Ross Ashby, was the first machine to embody second-order adaptation and, in some sense, self-organization. Its implications in terms of the actual and metaphorical definition of mechanism are explored. A short tutorial on state spaces and a cybernetic notion of an observer is offered. Various correlates in neurology and anthropology are suggested. Beautiful and amusing examples of other similar devices are shown. |
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