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Society was reduced to individual psychologies; individual psychologies were reduced to biological processes; biological processes were reduced to chemical processes.

Human cognition was reduced to electro-chemical processes of the brain: neurons firing or turning off, like a binary system. This led to chemical and electrical pulse weapons.

Finally, even the electro-chemical processes of the brain were reduced to Newtonian mechanics, leading to remote viewing warfare.

In other words, cognition was viewed simply as a reaction to external stimuli, Pavlov, Skinner, Watson Behaviorism, aversive in many cases.

Since Newtonian bodies at rest stay at rest until acted upon by another body, the internal process of cognition was eliminated.

There was no divine spark, ghost in the machine or soul.

These conceptions provided the basis for the discussions at the Cybernetics conference years later.

The Helmsmen:

Sooner or later we shall die, wrote Norbert Wiener, and it is highly probable that the whole universe around us will die the heat death, in which the world shall be reduced to one vast temperature equilibrium in which nothing new ever happens. There will be nothing left but a drab uniformity out of which we can expect only minor and insignificant local fluctuations.[13]

Norbert Wiener coined the term cybernetics from the Greek word kubernetes, which means “helmsman.”

The helmsman was the one who directed the rowing, the coxswain. The coxswain had to have feedback, in order to give feed-forward (orders) to the crew.

If the helmsman went too fast or slow, the equilibrium was thrown off, true for any closed system.

For example, without a functioning thermostat capable of registering feed-forward and feedback, an engine block overheats and fails.

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