Tabla de Contenidos: “…Science and Society in Flux / Discussion: Does A New Kind of Science Require a New Kind of Scholar or a New Kind of University? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Psychiatry to cybernetics -- Grey Walter: from electroshock to the psychedelic sixties -- The tortoise and the brain -- Tortoise ontology -- Tortoises as not-brains -- The social basis of cybernetics -- Rodney Brooks and robotics -- Cora and machina docilis -- Cybernetics and madness -- Strange performances -- Flicker -- Flicker and the sixties -- Biofeedback and new music -- Ross Ashby: psychiatry, synthetic brains, and cybernetics -- The pathological brain -- Ashby's hobby -- The homeostat -- The homeostat as ontological theater -- The social basis of Ashby's cybernetics -- Design for a brain -- Dams -- Madness revisited -- Adaptation, war, and society -- Cybernetics as a theory of everything -- Cybernetics and epistemology -- A new kind of science: Alexander, Kauffman, and Wolfram -- Gregory Bateson and R. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Complexity Science; What Is This Book About?; A New Kind of Science; Paradigm Shift?; The Axes of Scientific Models; A New Kind of Model; A New Kind of Engineering; A New Kind of Thinking; Chapter 2. …”