When he wrote The Human Use of Human Beings, Wiener was straddling the end of the era of understanding machines and animals…

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When he wrote The Human Use of Human Beings, Wiener was straddling the end of the era of understanding machines and animals simply as physical processes and the beginning of our current era of understanding machines and animals as computational processes. Rodney Brooks, “The Inhuman Mess Our Machines Have Gotten Us Into.” In Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI, edited by John Brockman. 54-63. New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2019.