Description: An examination of the fundamental role cybernetics played in the birth of cognitive science and the light this sheds on current controversies.
Review Quotes: A healthy prescription for those engaged in advancing theories of cognition. It contrasts starkly with the superficiality of some self-styled gurus of cybernetics, who mire the word in cyberspace, cyborgs and the cyberculture.--Igor Aleksander, New Scientist--
By putting a magnifying glass on a crucial period in the intellectual history of the last century, Dupuy has opened up a field for further discussion and hopefully better understanding of where cognitive science stands and where it is going.
--Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Journal of Cognitive Systems Research--