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Mind and Brain

Neurons, learning, and minds understood as patterns of control.

The Founders: Lives and Studies

A mathematician, a physiologist, a psychiatrist, a homeless prodigy, two anthropologists, and a British psychiatrist with a box of magnets. Short portraits of the people who built cybernetics.

The Editors 6 October 2026

Foundations

The Philosophy Behind Cybernetics

Purpose without mysticism, mind as pattern, and the observer who cannot step outside: how cybernetic philosophy developed through the first, second, and third orders.

The Editors 3 October 2026