Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5370853 | Biophysical Chemistry | 2016 | 8 Pages |
â¢The hodgepodge of concepts involving Biophysics, Cybernetics, CogSci and Wienerâ¢Aspects of interdisciplinarity in Wienerâ¢Implicit epistemology of Wiener in contrast with Caianielloâ¢Wiener's Cybernetics compared with other approaches in biophysicsâ¢Legacy of Wiener on AI and cognitive sciences, and connection to biophysics
Is Biophysics an interdisciplinary science? In order to answer this rhetorical question, it can be useful to look back at history of disciplines, as well as that of the scientific institutions helping their development. In this contribution some aspects of the unusual hodgepodge of concepts involving Biophysics, the legacy of Cybernetics, cognitive science and the central figure of Norbert Wiener are presented and discussed.
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