Welcome to the Neuroboros Podcast!
Ami Elliott and I recorded this last year as a first installment of a podcast for our Neuroboros Society. I’m consolidating and sharing some past content from elsewhere (and unpublished) under this account to help align a foundation for new aspects of the Unjournaling that are underway.
Thanks for your patience, pardon our dust, etc.
Our conversation in this episode covers the beginnings of cybernetics in the US, from Norbert Wiener in WWII through the Macy Conferences (pictured below in slightly tongue-in-cheek style. There was a running thread of curiosity about mysticism and unexplained phenomenon in both US and British cybernetics origins - though we haven’t delved into this much yet) in the late 40s and early 50s. This period of cybernetics was one of the primary precursors to modern AI engineering which kicked off later in the mid 1950s.
Neuroboros is a podcast by Sean Manion and Ami Elliott, two neuroscientists working in tech. The focus is the limitations that have been created with the closed loop thinking of brain-as-computer and computer-as-brain, along with how we got here and how we can break out of this loop.
Episode 1: Cybernetics & Wiener Walks is a look at the early years of cybernetics and its primary founder, Norbert Wiener.
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