Research breakthrough · curated entry
Feedback explains purposeful behaviour
Behavior, Purpose and Teleology
- Date
- January 1943
- Category
- Research breakthrough
- Organization / Model
- MIT / Harvard Medical School
- Evidence
- 1 source · 1 evidence family
Wiener, Rosenblueth and Bigelow published a paper in Philosophy of Science using negative feedback to give machines and organisms a single account of goal-directed behaviour. The programme launched the cybernetics movement and the 1948 book Cybernetics, and supplied shared language for automatic control, robotics and neural computation.
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AI 纪年. "Wiener 等人用反馈解释目的性行为，控制论纲领成形." Published Jan. 1943. Accessed Nov. 3, 2026. https://aihist.net/e/cybernetics-1943.html.
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