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Encounter of behavioral sciences with new machine‐organism analogies in the 1940's
Author(s) -
Heims Steve
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(197510)11:4<368::aid-jhbs2300110407>3.0.co;2-l
Subject(s) - organism , psychology , cognitive science , behavioural sciences , epistemology , biology , philosophy , psychotherapist , genetics
In the 1940's a number of social and behavioral scientists attended a series of interdisciplinary conferences, through which they became acquainted with new machine‐organism analogies, analogies which had originated in connection with computers and communication engineering. Responses to the ideas proposed by engineers and mathematicians differed from individual to individual. At one of their meetings the proponents of the new analogies were confronted by W. Koehler with the apparently conflicting viewpoint of Gestalt psychology.